Readers Are Leaders! Â 
Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is turning that frown upside down for Presidents Day, showing off a Kennedy error for the holiday.
Then Senator Kennedy acquired A. Lincoln by Ross F. Lockridge from the Library of Congress at some point during his time on the Hill, and never returned it.
Now the world may gaze upon the tome at the Kennedy Library before it disappears once more into the L of C’s catacombs.
Missed The Bus  
 “I have always wondered…
       
out of pure interest what state do you think the bodies of our founding fathers
are like? or others like Abraham Lincoln? do they get embalmed?”
One of the many paths to presidential knowledge, demonstrated by “indian23” in Bodybuilding.com’s forum.
History Varmints!Â
The Lincoln Studies blog downplays the New York Times story on a Lincoln commemorative issue of American Heritage running Confederate tchotsky ads.
Eric Foner and a writer for the special issue are suitably outraged, but the Lincoln Students are rather relaxed.
“How many Confederate-themed items are available at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum gift shop? I’m not absolutely positive, but I bet you could buy a rebel flag if you wished.”
 Actually, a year ago you could buy this Confederate trinket from the Lincoln Library, but not currently.
The problem with this is the dilution of knowledge such commercial crap can only further, the 21st century version of the post-war reconciliation where everyone agreed to be heroes, do down the blacks, and build the empire. Â
 Fudging up facts, and that great sin in the eyes of neo-cons, relativism, ends us up with bad history, and in schlock.
Lincoln As She Never Saw Him  
As the nation enjoys Barack Obama’s ham-handed efforts to resurrect Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lincolnesque “Cabinet Of Rivals,” actual Lincoln historians try to spoil the party with facts.
Dickinson College Civil War historian Matthew Pinsker challenges the renowned plagiarist, pointing out that Lincoln angered his supporters by taking in his opponents, who largely failed him.
“Lincoln’s Cabinet was no team. His rivals proved to be uneven as subordinates. Some were capable despite their personal disloyalty, yet others were simply disastrous…Lincoln was a political genius, but his model for Cabinet-building should stand more as a cautionary tale than as a leadership manual.”