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Make Your Plans Now to See Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War

One of the exhibition's several interactive games

One of the exhibition's interactive games

Update:  Here’s the Cincinnati Enquirer’s quick take on the exhibit.

Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War is an exhibition that appeals to everyone from school groups to Civil War history buffs and human rights scholars.

Please Note the Following Important Schedule Information: The Freedom Center is closed on Mondays and in addition, we also will be closed on the following Sundays while the Lincoln Exhibition is showing:

October 19, November 2, November 16 and November 30, December 14 and December 28.

The exhibit provides a succinct yet masterfully comprehensive review of Abraham Lincoln’s brief term as President.  It was a time fraught with unparalleled challenges, any one of which would have overwhelmed even the most capable of leaders. That Lincoln was able — with sheer determination and incomparable vision — to steer a course that brought the nation through a bitter civil war, preserved the Constitution, and set in motion the abolition of slavery is one of history’s watershed accomplishments.

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