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Dr. Pinsker’s new book was recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by author/ historian Harold Holzer: “Boss Lincoln is…Team of Rivals on steroids…It is hard to imagine that the year will bring forth a Lincoln book of more originality or consequence.” |
2026 Gala Sunday Brunch , May 17, 2026: 11:30 AM-3:30 PM
Cortlandt Colonial Manor, 5714 Albany Post Road, Cortlandt Manor, NY
Purchase Dinner
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Program: "BOSS LINCOLN"
Dr. Matthew Pinsker
Book Signing Station and Silent Auction
Civil War songs by Alyssa Martin and Emily Lapisardi
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PRESS RELEASE
MATTHEW PINSKER, NOTED LINCOLN SCHOLAR, TO HEADLINE 2026 LINCOLN SOCIETY EVENT
Matthew Pinsker, one of America’s most distinguished historians and a noted Lincoln scholar, will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2026 GALA SUNDAY BRUNCH of the Lincoln Society in Peekskill on Sunday, May 17th, 2026. The event will focus attention on Dr. Pinsker’s latest book entitled BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (2026). It documents the amazing story of the how Lincoln developed his unique political skills and applied them to the creation of a new political party and the launching of his improbable but successful campaign for the Presidency.
The GALA SUNDAY BRUNCH will take place at Cortlandt Colonial Manor at 5714 Albany Post Road in Cortlandt Manor, New York from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM on May 17th. This annual celebration and fund-raiser marks the 123rd anniversary of the founding of the Lincoln Society in 1903. It was organized to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s only speaking stop in Westchester County during his lifetime before a crowd of 1,500 people at the old Peekskill railroad depot in 1861 during the train journey to his Inauguration in Washington, DC. This aging site was later rescued, renovated and opened to the public in 2014 as the Lincoln Depot Museum. Today, it is the only Lincoln-related museum in the State of New York.
Dr. Matthew Pinsker is currently Professor of History at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he is Chair of Civil War Studies and Director of the House Divided Project. A graduate of Harvard University, he earned his doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in Great Britain. His latest book was recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal as follows: “Boss Lincoln is...Team of Rivals on steroids...It is hard to imagine that the year will bring forth a Lincoln book of more originality or consequence”.
Everyone is welcome to attend the Lincoln Society’s GALA SUNDAY BRUNCH on May 17th and tickets can be purchased on its website, which includes a credit card and PayPal link: lincolnsocietyinpeekskill.org
The $85. ticket price includes a deluxe selection of breakfast foods served with champagne, mimosas, Bloody Mary’s, OJ and soft drinks – which also features cold antipasto, chilled shrimp cocktail, a carving station with prime rib of beef and assorted desserts served with coffee and tea. This event will include a silent auction area and a book signing station.
Following Dr. Pinsker’s presentation, a medley of Civil War-era songs will be performed by Emily Lapisardi and Alyssa Martin. The RSVP deadline for this event is May 8, 2026.
The Lincoln Society in Peekskill is a non-political, non-partisan historical and educational organization that is dedicated to promoting the life and legacy of America’s 16th President. It is the only Lincoln group in Westchester County, which is now headed by William K. Schmidt and is governed by a distinguished Board of Directors.
MATTHEW PINSKER, NOTED LINCOLN SCHOLAR, TO HEADLINE 2026 LINCOLN SOCIETY EVENT
Matthew Pinsker, one of America’s most distinguished historians and a noted Lincoln scholar, will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2026 GALA SUNDAY BRUNCH of the Lincoln Society in Peekskill on Sunday, May 17th, 2026. The event will focus attention on Dr. Pinsker’s latest book entitled BOSS LINCOLN: THE PARTISAN LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (2026). It documents the amazing story of the how Lincoln developed his unique political skills and applied them to the creation of a new political party and the launching of his improbable but successful campaign for the Presidency.
The GALA SUNDAY BRUNCH will take place at Cortlandt Colonial Manor at 5714 Albany Post Road in Cortlandt Manor, New York from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM on May 17th. This annual celebration and fund-raiser marks the 123rd anniversary of the founding of the Lincoln Society in 1903. It was organized to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s only speaking stop in Westchester County during his lifetime before a crowd of 1,500 people at the old Peekskill railroad depot in 1861 during the train journey to his Inauguration in Washington, DC. This aging site was later rescued, renovated and opened to the public in 2014 as the Lincoln Depot Museum. Today, it is the only Lincoln-related museum in the State of New York.
Dr. Matthew Pinsker is currently Professor of History at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he is Chair of Civil War Studies and Director of the House Divided Project. A graduate of Harvard University, he earned his doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in Great Britain. His latest book was recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal as follows: “Boss Lincoln is...Team of Rivals on steroids...It is hard to imagine that the year will bring forth a Lincoln book of more originality or consequence”.
Everyone is welcome to attend the Lincoln Society’s GALA SUNDAY BRUNCH on May 17th and tickets can be purchased on its website, which includes a credit card and PayPal link: lincolnsocietyinpeekskill.org
The $85. ticket price includes a deluxe selection of breakfast foods served with champagne, mimosas, Bloody Mary’s, OJ and soft drinks – which also features cold antipasto, chilled shrimp cocktail, a carving station with prime rib of beef and assorted desserts served with coffee and tea. This event will include a silent auction area and a book signing station.
Following Dr. Pinsker’s presentation, a medley of Civil War-era songs will be performed by Emily Lapisardi and Alyssa Martin. The RSVP deadline for this event is May 8, 2026.
The Lincoln Society in Peekskill is a non-political, non-partisan historical and educational organization that is dedicated to promoting the life and legacy of America’s 16th President. It is the only Lincoln group in Westchester County, which is now headed by William K. Schmidt and is governed by a distinguished Board of Directors.
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The Official Website of the Lincoln Society in Peekskill Founded 1903 William K. Schmidt: President "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-
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Lincoln Exedra Re-dedication Ceremony: November 5, 2017 |
Lincoln Society In Peekskill Virtual Event 2021
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Due to the 2020 Pandemic, our Annual Lincoln Society Re-enactment Event and Commemoration was cancelled, and a virtual video was created. Produced by Michael J. Miner, the video combines the best moments from many of the events and commemorations that transpred over the past ten years or so. Please sit back and enjoy this wonderful production of speeches, poems and music, as we celebrate the 160th Anniversary of Presdient Abraham Lincoln's stop and speech in Peekskill, New York on February 19, 1861.
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Lincoln was elected President in November of 1860. During his trip from Illinois to Washington for his inauguration, he traveled by train east to Albany and then south through the Hudson Valley to NYC, Philadelphia and Baltimore. At his stop in Peekskill NY at the Peekskill Train Station on February 19, 1861, Lincoln addressed a supportive crowd from a specially prepared platform erected on a baggage car. There, he sensed the difficult times the nation appeared to be heading towards, when he said:
“In regard to the difficulties which lie before me and our beloved country, if I can only be as generously and unanimously sustained as the demonstrations I have witnessed indicate I shall be, then in my management of public affairs, I shall not fail: Without your sustaining hands I am sure that neither I nor any other man can hope to surmount these difficulties. I trust that in the course I shall pursue, I shall be sustained not only by the party that elected me, but by the free, intelligent and earnest support of the patriotic people of the whole country.”
Since 1903, The Lincoln Society in Peekskill has dedicated itself to perpetuating and honoring the memory of Abraham Lincoln, who stopped in Peekskill on February 19, 1861, on the way to his inauguration in Washington DC, with commemorative events, parades and dinners.
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The Mystic Chords of Memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
Lincoln' First Inaugural Address.
Lincoln' First Inaugural Address.
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“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan-to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves and with all nations.”
Lincoln' Second Inaugural Address.
Lincoln' Second Inaugural Address.
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