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The Lincoln Memorial Shrine

The Lincoln Memorial Shrine
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Jason Emmerson to Speak at 78th Annual Watchorn Lincoln Dinner
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Check out our upcoming events sponsored by the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, Lincoln Memorial Association, Watchorn Lincoln Memorial Association and Inland Empire Civil War Roundtable.
The Lincoln Memorial Shrine is a museum and research facility dedicated to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Anyone interested in learning more about America's greatest president and most sanguinary war will be fascinated by the west coast's only institution dedciated to Abraham Lincoln.
The Lincoln Memorial Shrine's complete Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture series is now available on Podcast from Podomatic. Please visit Podomatic.com and use keywords Lincoln Shrine or click on Podcasts above.
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The Lincoln Memorial Shrine is pleased to announce that author and historian Jason Emerson has agreed to be our speaker at the 78th Annual Watchorn Lincoln Dinner on February 12, 2010.  LMA members may recognize Emerson from the 2009 Lincoln documentary, "Stealing Lincoln's Body" on the History Channel.  Emerson is most noted for his first book, The Madness of Mary Lincoln. In it, Emerson provided a new examination of Mary Toddy Lincoln's insanity case based on his discovery of Mary Lincoln's twenty "lost" insanity letters, for which historians had been looking for eighty years.  The publication went on to be named the 2007 "Book of the Year" by the Illinois State Historical Society, and garner praise from previous Watchorn Lincoln Dinner speakers Harold Holzer, Michael Brlingame,
and Frank J. Williams.  For the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Emerson released his newest book, LIncoln the Inventor, which is the complete story of Lincoln's invention and patent, and an examination of his mechanical genius that influenced his entire life form his childhood to his presidency.  2007 Lincoln Dinner speaker Alan Guelzo wrote, "You will come away from Lincoln the Inventor the wiser."  Shrine curator Don McCue stated "I have had the pleasure of hearing Jason speak about his Mary Todd Lincoln discovery in Gettysburg.  It was fascinating.  I'm certain or LMA members are in for a very entertaining evening next February."  Further information on Emerson, the 78th Annual Watchorn Lincoln Dinner, and the 38th Annual Open House will appear in the next LMA newsletter.