“By the People” is the video project for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial developed by Conferences and Institutes in the Office of Continuing Education of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and WILL-TV.
Texts were selected to represent the most famous speeches in Lincoln’s career as well as to reflect on topics of interest in east central Illinois at the time of the project. A few of these selections are rather hard to find online but can be located through searching The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln website. Readers were recorded at WILL studios on October 28 and 30, 2008.
Thank you very much to those members of the central Illinois community who read excerpts from Lincoln's writings.
We also wish to thank Peg Wherry and Michelle Marquart - without them this project would not have been possible.
