Of course, while in this vicinity you won't want to miss a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial where on the side of a mountain are the famous sculptures of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* 1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U. S. penny goes into circulation.

* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

...", from the " I Have a Dream " speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D. C. on August 28, 1963.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

At the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park, Douglass was the keynote speaker.

* 1914 – In Washington, D. C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy .– Martin Luther King Jr .' s I Have a Dream speech, delivered August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

Brooks at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | We Are One concert in 2009

He was a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and served as Co-Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Cabinet.

* Lincoln Memorial

The wall is granite and V-shaped, with one side pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other to the Washington Monument.

* 1922 – In Washington, D. C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

Roosevelt was included with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln at the Mount Rushmore Memorial, designed in 1927 with the approval of Republican President Calvin Coolidge.

Harding nominated him to serve on the Lincoln Memorial Commission in 1921, and then to a more lucrative position on the Federal Coal Commission in 1922 ; Marshall resigned from both commissions in 1923.

* April 9 – African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75, 000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia.

* August 28 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250, 000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

* February 12 – In Washington, D. C. the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

* May 30 – In Washington, D. C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

Lincoln Memorial where Abraham Lincoln is said to have selected Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus after visiting this site in 1859 under the employ of Thomas C. Durant.

* Lincoln / Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1951.

Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.

* Dowd, David, Pageant-Master of the Republic, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, ( 1948 )

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol.

* Strong, Douglas H. Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists ( 1971 ; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988 ) ISBN 0-8032-9156-6

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

In 1925 Edgerton received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where he became a member of Acacia Fraternity.

After graduating from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Edgerton married Esther May Garrett in 1928.

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* 2010 Botham was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Lincoln.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

He graduated from the University of Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner at University College tutored by Obadiah Walker, to become a Fellow of Lincoln College.

In October 1935 Nkrumah sailed from Liverpool to the United States and enrolled in Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

Category: Lincoln University ( Pennsylvania ) alumni

* The complete text of the Lewis and Clark Journals online, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

* Full text of the Lewis and Clark journals online – edited by Gary E. Moulton, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948 – 91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, ISBN 0-8032-3733-2

* Lincoln University ( disambiguation )

* University of Lincoln, a university in Lincoln, United Kingdom

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press ( Smithsonian Institution ).