Company type | Non-profit organization |
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Industry | Historical research |
Founded | Maryland, U.S. (June 9, 1997 ) |
Founder | Paul Verduin [1] |
Website | www.lincoln-institute.org |
The Abraham Lincoln Institute (ALI), founded in 1997, is an American non-profit organization promoting scholarly research on the subject of Abraham Lincoln.[2][3] The institute uses dissertation prizes, book awards, and an annual Lincoln symposium to encourage and present scholarship on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. These annual symposia, presented at the National Archives in College Park, MD and more recently at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, are a venue for both emerging and highly renowned Lincoln scholars to present the findings of their current research. They are attended by the general public and have been frequently filmed by organizations such as the National Archives and C-SPAN.[4][5]