As part of our special display of the ALPLM’s original edition of the Gettysburg Address, we’ll be giving visitors a chance to talk about the speech with Lincoln Historian Christian McWhirter. At 12:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, November 21 and 22 in "Mr. Lincoln's Theater" adjacent to the museum plaza, McWhirter will discuss what inspired Lincoln to write it and what message he may have been trying to send to his divided nation.

To give more people the opportunity to appreciate this powerful document, admission to the museum will be free on Tuesday, November 19, the 161th anniversary of Lincoln delivering the speech at a military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. And for the full 10 days the address is on display between November 15-24, visitors also have the option of paying just $5 to see the document without touring the rest of the museum.