In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit a rare copy of the document signed by President Abraham Lincoln.
The document is on loan to the museum from the Union League of Philadelphia from January 12 to February 3.
The State Museum will kick-off the exhibit entitled “Emancipation: Lincoln and His Proclamation” with a special presentation by author Harold Holzer on Friday, January 11, at 7:30 p.m.
The program, which focuses on Holzer’s book, “Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context and History” is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation.
The event is free and open to the public and affords attendees the opportunity to preview the exhibit.
Holzer, author, co-author or editor of 43 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era, wrote “How Lincoln Ended Slavery in America” (2012), the young adult companion book to director Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed motion picture “Lincoln,” for which he also served as a content consultant.
The document is on loan to the museum from the Union League of Philadelphia from January 12 to February 3.
The State Museum will kick-off the exhibit entitled “Emancipation: Lincoln and His Proclamation” with a special presentation by author Harold Holzer on Friday, January 11, at 7:30 p.m.
The program, which focuses on Holzer’s book, “Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context and History” is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation.
The event is free and open to the public and affords attendees the opportunity to preview the exhibit.
Holzer, author, co-author or editor of 43 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era, wrote “How Lincoln Ended Slavery in America” (2012), the young adult companion book to director Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed motion picture “Lincoln,” for which he also served as a content consultant.