Acknowledgements

"Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" has been organized by the Huntington Libary, San Marino, California, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, New York, in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. This exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition and related programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Exhibition sponsors:

• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Huntington Library
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• American Library Association

Local Sponsors:

• UB University Libraries
• UB College of Arts and Sciences
• UB General Education Program
• UB Department of African American Studies
• UB Department of History
• The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society

UB Planning Committee:

• Charles D’Aniello, Associate Librarian, Arts & Sciences Libraries

• Carole Ann Fabian, Director, Educational Technology Center

• Lillian Williams, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies

• Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Research Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies

• Peter Gold, Associate Dean for General Education, College of Arts and Sciences

• William Evitts, Senior Director, Development & Communication, The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society

Western New York and the Civil War: A Sampler of Images

• Courtesy of Benedict R. Maryniak
  President of the Buffalo Civil War Round Table

Web Development Team :

• Chris Barr, ETC Graduate Assistant, Forever Free Web site designer

• INF 500: Collaborative Applications in Web Design Student Web developers:
  Charles Dowd
  Pei-yun Lee
  Marsha Stender

ASI 300: Honors Seminar Student Content Providers:

• Steve Battaglia
  Maria Bucukovska
  Sarah Duval
  Megan Francis
  Matt Kosloski
  Kailee Neuner
  Peter Ruocco
  Shana Sessler
  Jennifer Taggart
  Ashley Wutz

Newspaper Research:

• Christopher Vaughan
  Graduate Student, Department of History