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Book talk and signing
Lincoln's Lover: Mary Lincoln and Poetry (some of my other books will also be available for sale and signing).

Manlius Library
One Arkie Albanese Ave.
Manlius, NY
Tuesday, Feb. 12


If you are interested in having Jason come speak to your group or event, here is a list of his current speaking topics:

  • Mary Lincoln for the Ages: She is not the woman we think she is
  • Lincoln's Lover: Mary Lincoln in Poetry
  • Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln
  • Robert Lincoln: First Son, presidential confidant, Civil War soldier
  • The Madness of Mary Lincoln, and the Discovery of Her Lost Insanity Letters
  • Lincoln the Inventor: The Story of His Mechanical Genius
  • New Evidence From an Ignored Voice: Robert Todd Lincoln and the Authorship of the Bixby Letter
  • Avoiding the Gilded Prison: Robert Todd Lincoln for President
  • “A Very Dreadful Night”: Robert Lincoln and his Father's Assassination
  • How Booth Saved Lincoln’s Life, or, the Evolution of a Great Lincoln Myth
  • Eyewitness to History — Henry Ames Blood: Poet, Playwright, Historian: His Life and Unpublished Letters about the Lincoln Assassination
  • The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln: The Beginnings of His Literary Genius
  • "Of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven": The Mystery of Little Eddie

Previous events

James A. Garfield National Historic Site
Abraham Lincoln Bookshop Virtual Book Signing
Union League Club of Chicago
Abraham Lincoln Institute
Lincoln Shrine, Redlands, CA
Lincoln Boyhood Home NM, Lincoln City, IN
Lincoln Group of Washington DC
Binghamton (NY) Civil War Round Table
Onandaga County (NY) Civil War Round Table
Mary Todd Lincoln House, Lexington, KY
Harlan-Lincoln House, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin
Lynchburg VA Civil War Round Table
Bridgewater VA College Civil War Institute
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Grace A. Dow Memorial Library, Midland, MI
State University of New York at Potsdam
Cazenovia [NY] Public Library
Civil War Round Table of Washington DC
Frederick Historic Sites Consortium

National Archives
Smithsonian Institution
Southern Illinois University
Surratt Society
National First Ladies Library
The Lincoln Group of NY
Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Illinois History Conference
Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home
The Abraham Lincoln Bookshop
The Kentucky State Book Fair
The Lincoln Forum
Batavia IL Depot Museum
Quincy IL Public Library
Illinois State Historical Society annual symposium
George Mason University Fall for the Book Festival
Fredericksburg VA Athenaeum
Fredericksburg VA Rappahannock Regional Library
Rappahannock Valley Civil War Round Table
Chambersburg PA Civil War Seminars


Interviews

Interview with Dr. John A. Riolo on www.psychjourney.com and www.psychinsider.com
May 2008

"An Interview with Jason Emerson"
Lincoln Lore: The Bulletin of the Lincoln Museum
No. 1893 (Summer 2008): 8-11.

Interview: "Lincoln Author Jason Emerson to Speak at Friends Fall Dinner,"
Cornerstone: The Newsletter of Morris Library [Southern Illinois University, Carbondale]
vol. 3, no. 4 (Summer 2008): 5-6
http://www.lib.siu.edu/departments/development/cornerstone