tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1439587530787929381.post305412792123502086..comments2023-12-13T04:30:39.311-08:00Comments on Civil War Medicine (and Writing): "We Are Going to Have Some New Clothes!" (Said President Lincoln)Jim Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03635615531025513644noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1439587530787929381.post-64446194774597673642009-01-14T11:16:00.000-08:002009-01-14T11:16:00.000-08:00Dear Jim,Abraham Lincoln is turning 200 in Februar...Dear Jim,<BR/>Abraham Lincoln is turning 200 in February, and we want you to celebrate his bicentennial with us!<BR/>We’ve read your site Civil War Medicine (and Writing) and think you’d be interested in hearing about our project because your site is a Civil War history blog.<BR/>My name is Alexis Lerro and I work for a company called Lime Projects based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For the last month or so, we have been helping the Rosenbach Museum & Library get ready to launch an exciting new project called “21st-Century Abe” to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abe Lincoln’s birth.<BR/>21st-Century Abe grew out of an awareness that there is an intense interest in Lincoln among the great number of web-savvy folks who spend much of their days surfing the net, as the abundance of Lincoln-themed YouTube videos and MySpace pages will attest, but that he is almost exclusively represented and discussed in a mythical and clichéd way. The goal of 21st-Century Abe is to engage this audience in exploring a nuanced and complex view of Lincoln and to create a community of dialogue (both textual and artistic) around contemporary issues that grow out an understanding of Lincoln’s historical materials. The organizing themes of the project include Lincoln’s views on race, his patterns of thought and rhetoric, and his role as a celebrity, both in his own day and ours.<BR/>In addition to the blog the Rosenbach has started, there will be a full website launch on February 12th, Lincoln’s 200th birthday, and exciting contributions from scholar and author Douglas Wilson, co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center and respected Lincoln academic; visual artist Maira Kalman, author and illustrator of numerous children’s books and illustrator of the illustrated version of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style; composer and rock musician Bryce Dessner, (member of the band The National); and multi-media artists Archive (Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick) as they reflect on Lincoln documents and provide their own creative interpretations.<BR/>But we’re not stopping there! Your responses—in words, songs, videos, photos, drawings, web links, whatever — define 21st-Century Abe. With the full site launch, we invite you to contribute your own Abe finds and interpretations and maybe even win one of our Abe contests.<BR/>After researching many blogs on the subjects of history, civil war reenactment, art, politics and education, we are excited to share 21st-Century Abe at the Rosenbach with your website, Civil War Medicine (and Writing).<BR/>The 21st-Century Abe blog is located at the following URL: http://www.21stcenturyabe.org <BR/>Plus there are great supplementary Abe media sites like:<BR/>Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/21stCenturyAbe<BR/>Bebo: http://www.bebo.com/21stCenturyAbe<BR/>MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/21stcenturyabe<BR/>Facebook:<BR/>http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1586996051&ref=profile&pub=2309869772 <BR/><BR/>Let us know what you think about it! If you like it, pass it along and tell a friend, or even post about it on your blog.<BR/>Thanks for your time—we hope to hear from you on our blog and website, and if you’re in the Philly area, we hope to see you at the Rosenbach’s festivities!<BR/>Sincerely,<BR/>Alexis<BR/>Alexis Lerro<BR/>Production Manager and Research Coordinator<BR/>Lime Projects<BR/>abe21@limeprojects.compinkdeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08407643278047763507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1439587530787929381.post-2733421237726773002009-01-11T20:06:00.000-08:002009-01-11T20:06:00.000-08:00Zoe -Thanks so much for your very kind message...y...Zoe -<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for your very kind message...you can expect an e-mail from me very soon. I'm certainly aware of some of your very interesting work, esp. on modern slavery but also on John Brown, etc.<BR/><BR/>JimJim Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635615531025513644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1439587530787929381.post-74219219247159421082009-01-11T20:01:00.000-08:002009-01-11T20:01:00.000-08:00Brian - Thanks for the kind message on this blog a...Brian - Thanks for the kind message on this blog and your own...I think you'll find that Lincoln had associations with other well-known companies - both as commander-in-chief and as an "ordinary" customer: Tiffany & Co., du Pont, Scientific American magazine, American Express, and others.<BR/><BR/>Thanks also for your great work, esp. Lincoln the Lawyer.<BR/><BR/>JimJim Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635615531025513644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1439587530787929381.post-34261611504040075012009-01-11T13:07:00.000-08:002009-01-11T13:07:00.000-08:00Dear Jim,I love your blog - and have been trying t...Dear Jim,<BR/><BR/>I love your blog - and have been trying to find your email address (without success), to ask if you might be willing to contribute an article to a book I'm editing. Might you shoot me an email at trodd@fas.harvard.edu, so I can send you details and see if you might be interested? <BR/>Warm wishes, Zoe TroddIngridhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706483693939439276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1439587530787929381.post-15130949408417634932009-01-09T05:11:00.000-08:002009-01-09T05:11:00.000-08:00Great post, Jim. I stand corrected! :-)Great post, Jim. I stand corrected! :-)brdirckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08323783494433477862noreply@blogger.com