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Civil War Institute in Gettysburg to host Annual Summer Conference in June 09.

The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College will host its 27th annual summer conference June 21-27. This year's themes are “The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln” and “The Life of Mary Todd Lincoln.”

The weeklong conference will feature an unprecedented number of Lincoln experts and scholars, with more than 300 people attending from all over the world. The 2009 Civil War Institute has been endorsed by the National Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

The Institute is under the direction of renowned Lincoln scholar Gabor S. Boritt, the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College and author of “The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows” (Simon and Schuster, 2006). Boritt serves on the boards of the National Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Gettysburg Battlefield Museum Foundation, among others ...

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