{"id":286,"date":"2009-02-04T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2009\/02\/04\/abraham-lincoln-the-man-the-myth-the-making-of-a-president-at-the-john-hay-library\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:03:16","slug":"abraham-lincoln-the-man-the-myth-the-making-of-a-president-at-the-john-hay-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/abraham-lincoln-the-man-the-myth-the-making-of-a-president-at-the-john-hay-library\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Abraham Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Making of a President&#8221; at the John Hay Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/libweb\/exhibits\/images\/Lincoln_2009exhibit.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"6\"><br \/>\n<strong>January 6 &#8211; March 6, 2009<br \/>\nJohn Hay Library<\/strong><br \/>\n20 Prospect Street<br \/>\nProvidence, Rhode Island 02912<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/hours\/index.php?cur_library=hours_johnhay\">Library Hours<\/a><br \/>\nOn January 20, 2009, the United States will inaugurate the first African American president in its long history. This year also marks the 146th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 200th anniversary of its author&#8217;s birth. Utilizing materials from the John Hay Library&#8217;s impressive holdings of original material on Abraham Lincoln, this exhibition explores the life and career of the nation&#8217;s 16th President, his thoughts on questions of race in the United States, and his legacy in modern American life.<br \/>\nPresident Obama is reading Lincoln. Shouldn&#8217;t you?<br \/>\nFor further information contact <a href=\"mailto:hay@brown.edu\">hay@brown.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 6 &#8211; March 6, 2009 John Hay Library 20 Prospect Street Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Library Hours On January 20, 2009, the United States will inaugurate the first African American president in its long history. This year also marks the 146th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 200th anniversary of its author&#8217;s birth. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/abraham-lincoln-the-man-the-myth-the-making-of-a-president-at-the-john-hay-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8220;Abraham Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Making of a President&#8221; at the John Hay Library<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}