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An Evening With Author Erik Larson and More Programs in May
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days agoUsing information from diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers and plantation records, Larson...
Democracy under construction and under attack at the same time - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoAbraham Lincoln is so familiar to Americans that it takes a special book to let us see him in a new...
Letter from Mary Todd Lincoln, newly discovered, shows rare side of former first lady, says expert
FOX Business· 2 days agoA newly discovered letter written by former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln shows a side of her that is...
WNC History: Steamboat Mountain Lily cruised the French Broad River 1881-85
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHe sold all 160 shares of his new company during the event. Now flush with cash, in April 1881,...
Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in women’s rights desert; here’s what life was like then
New Hampshire Bulletin via Yahoo News· 4 days agoDora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in...
When Arizona Was Young: Yuma lawyer held some blame for Donner Party fate
The Yuma Sun· 5 days agoEditor’s Note: The Yuma Sun is reprinting articles from past newspapers honoring Yuma’s unique history. The 1860 census for Yuma – then known as Arizona City – listed as a resident Lanceford ...
Michael Smolens: Changing water reality upends huge project, pushes rates higher
U-T San Diego· 5 days agoThe San Diego region’s effort launched a couple of decades ago to insulate the county during times...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum
Chicago Sun-Times· 2 days agoOne of the most fateful documents of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency — and in all of American history — will go on public display this week at the legendary Illinoisan’s namesake museum in Springfield ...
Letters: Here's one way to give Eddie Sapir the recognition he deserves
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 3 days agoIn our City Council chamber, while segregation and Jim Crow raged and the electorate was 80%...
In killing this bill, California Democrats proved they’re lap dogs for Gov. Newsom | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 7 days agoEven the author of the bill says he was not a part of the process. Fong’s bill would have stopped...