{"id":331,"date":"2009-09-04T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2009\/09\/04\/lincoln-family-home-exhibit-features-brown-special-collections\/"},"modified":"2009-09-04T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T21:16:10","slug":"lincoln-family-home-exhibit-features-brown-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/lincoln-family-home-exhibit-features-brown-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Family Home Exhibit Features Brown Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?attachment_id=428\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-428\" title=\"AmIdeal\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2010\/06\/AmIdeal-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBrunonians whose travels take them to southern Vermont in the next two years will have the chance to view artifacts from the John Hay Library&#8217;s McLellan Lincoln Collection at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home in Manchester, VT. The artifacts will be part of an exhibit opening on Saturday, September 5, 2009 entitled &#8220;The American Ideal: Abraham Lincoln and the Second Inaugural.&#8221; The Second Inaugural is considered one of Lincoln&#8217;s greatest speeches, and the exhibit aims to demonstrate how Lincoln helped bring life and meaning to the promise of the American ideal of equality, justice, and opportunity for all.<br \/>\nThe exhibit is the first effort in a partnership formed by the Brown University Library and Hildene to promote the legacy of Abraham Lincoln by collaborating on public programming for their respective Lincoln holdings.<br \/>\nThis fall, Hildene and Brown are partnering to bring a Lincoln Essay Competition, with prizes of $1,000, $750, and $500 and up to ten honorable mention awards of $200 each, to Providence-area eighth graders. The contest will launch in mid-September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brunonians whose travels take them to southern Vermont in the next two years will have the chance to view artifacts from the John Hay Library&#8217;s McLellan Lincoln Collection at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home in Manchester, VT. The artifacts will be part of an exhibit opening on Saturday, September 5, 2009 entitled &#8220;The American Ideal: <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/lincoln-family-home-exhibit-features-brown-special-collections\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Lincoln Family Home Exhibit Features Brown Special Collections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","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\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}