{"id":10674,"date":"2014-02-05T08:47:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10674"},"modified":"2014-02-04T20:49:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T01:49:22","slug":"program-to-spotlight-abraham-lincolns-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=10674","title":{"rendered":"Program to spotlight Abraham Lincoln\u2019s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><em>It will be held Monday, Feb. 10, at Exton library<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-22-at-4.16.49-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10675\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-01-22 at 4.16.49 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-22-at-4.16.49-PM.png\" width=\"176\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>As the 250th anniversary of the Civil War moves into high gear, the Chester County Library is inviting the public to focus on Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Feb. 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Struble Room, the Exton library will present \u201cAbraham Lincoln: A Study in the Paradox of Greatness,\u201d a program offering insight into one of America\u2019s best known and most honored leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation, featuring Haverford College\u2019s Roger Lane, will explore Lincoln\u2019s claim on posterity, which rests not just on his victory in the Civil War, but also on the unique combination of Lincoln\u2019s personal qualities, his historical context and the American imagination.\u2028\u2028<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once named by Philadelphia Magazine as one of the \u201cTop 10 Profs\u201d in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, Lane has also written several prize-winning books and has frequently appeared in television documentaries dealing with crime, the history of Philadelphia, and the urban African American experience.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities. Registration is required.\u00a0 Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccls.org\/\">www.ccls.org<\/a>\u00a0and Click on \u201cFind an Event.\u201d The Chester County Library is located at 450 Exton Square Parkway, Exton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be held Monday, Feb. 10, at Exton library As the 250th anniversary of the Civil War moves into high gear, the Chester County Library is inviting the public to focus on Abraham Lincoln. On Monday, Feb. 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Struble Room, the Exton library will present \u201cAbraham Lincoln: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,450],"tags":[3988,1306,1818,3989,3990],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-events-2","tag-abraham-lincoln-a-study-in-the-paradox-of-greatness","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-chester-county-library","tag-pennsylvania-humanities-council","tag-roger-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}