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A CEREMONIAL RESOLUTION
21-11
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
March 3, 2015
To recognize the Abraham Lincoln Institute for its dedication to promoting the life and legacy of the 16th President of the United States, President Abraham Lincoln.
WHEREAS, the Abraham Lincoln Institute (“ALI”) was founded in 1997 and has its headquarters in Washington, D.C.;
WHEREAS, ALI provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln to educators, governmental and community leaders, and the general public;
WHEREAS, ALI sponsors a free symposium on "The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship," presented each year in late March in Washington, D.C.;
WHEREAS, ALI's symposia have been held at the Library of Congress, the National Archives in Washington, and the National Archives II in College Park, Maryland;
WHEREAS, ALI also presents an annual book award and (in conjunction with the Abraham Lincoln Association of Springfield, Illinois) a prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation on Lincoln;
WHEREAS, the speakers at the symposia have included some of today's most eminent historians and biographers, including Doris Kearns Goodwin, Amanda Foreman, James McPherson, Eric Foner, James Swanson, Mark Neely, James Oakes, David Blight, and William Lee Miller;
WHEREAS, the ALI board of directors includes some of the most honored Lincoln scholars of our time, including 4 winners of the coveted Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Allen C. Guelzo, Douglas L. Wilson, William C. Harris, and Michael Burlingame, and our own local scholar, Edna Medford Green, Professor and Chairman of the Department of History, Howard University;
WHEREAS, the officers of the ALI are President Joan Cashin, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University; Vice President Paul Pascal; Treasurer Don Kennon, U.S. Capitol Historical Society; and General Secretary Clark Evans, retired, Library of Congress;
WHEREAS, the ALI has received generous support from the Illinois State Society of Washington, D.C., the Foundation for the National Archives, the Lincoln Institute, and the University of Illinois Springfield; and
WHEREAS, the ALI cooperates with other Lincoln organizations, including the Lincoln Group of Washington D.C., Abraham Lincoln Association of Springfield, Illinois, and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, that the Council of the District of Columbia acknowledges and applauds the Abraham Lincoln Institute for its dedication to promoting the life and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln.
Sec. 2. This resolution may be cited as the “Abraham Lincoln Institute Recognition Resolution of 2015”.
Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon the first date of publication in the District of Columbia Register.
