"One Life: The Mask of Lincoln" exhibition - interview with David Ward, NPG historian

Summary: David Ward, historian at NPG, discusses "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln." Interview by Warren Perry. In the two-hundredth year since his birth, Abraham Lincoln remains as much a puzzle as he was to his contemporaries. "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln," a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, shows the changing face that Abraham Lincoln presented to the world as he led the fight for the Union. The exhibition runs until July 5, 2009. It is part of a yearlong Smithsonian-wide celebration of the bicentennial, exploring the life and times of the nation's most mythic and transformative president. Recorded at NPG, November 2008. See the online exhibiton at http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/lincoln . Image info: Abraham Lincoln/Alexander Gardner, 1865/Albumen silver print/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution