BOOK ALERT from the UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

Everybody’s History: Indiana’s Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President’s Past

By Keith A. Erekson

A volume in the series Public History in Historical Perspective

$26.95 paperback, 264 pages, 12 black-and-white illus., ISBN 978-1-55849-915-7

http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/everybodys-history

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The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association has published Erekson’s “Telling the Story of ‘The Ages’.” The essay reviews the literature on the memory of Abraham Lincoln. The JALA is the only journal devoted exclusively to Lincoln scholarship and is the official journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association.

The Indiana Magazine of History celebrated the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with a special issue on Lincoln and Indiana guest edited by Keith Erekson. Articles in the issue explore the state’s efforts to preserve its Lincoln collections, the history of the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, statues of Lincoln in Indiana, and the life [...]

The Oral History Review has published Erekson’s “Method and Memory in the Midwestern ‘Lincoln Inquiry’: Oral Testimony and Abraham Lincoln Studies, 1865-1938.” The article reviews the efforts from the 1880s through the 1930s to collect and examine oral histories with Abraham Lincoln’s Indiana neighbors. OHR is the official publication of the Oral History [...]

The Indiana Magazine of History sent Erekson–and his family–to review the controversial new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, IL. “Even before the museum opened to the public,” Erekson notes, “some critics had already disparaged it, media displays and all, with the dismissive D-word (Disney).” The museum has attracted millions of visitors by [...]