Claim: The Abraham Lincoln Institute, founded by Paul Verduin in 1997, is an organization promoting reenactments of Abraham Lincoln's life, with a board of directors comprised of nationally recognized scholars on the subject of Abraham Lincoln and/or the Civil War.
Evidence: Paul Verduin The Abraham Lincoln Institute (ALI), founded in 1997, is an American non-profit organization promoting scholarly research on the subject of Abraham Lincoln. Its formal membership consists solely of a board of directors, the majority of whom must be nationally recognized scholars on the subjects of Abraham Lincoln and/or the American Civil War.