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Lewis Central tops Girls City Meet at Whispering Woods; Reed medalist
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 55 minutes agoLewis Central won Thursday's girls golf city meet at Whispering Woods, and Kate Reed won individual...
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoOn June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
Erik Larson vividly captures the struggle for Fort Sumter
The Day· 16 hours agoA century or so ago, in an era of racial denialism, historians groped for any explanation besides slavery to define the war’s origins. Half a century later, in the aftermath of the civil rights ...
Lincoln's Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois by governor and first lady
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoThe document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to Springfield museum
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum introduced a new item dating back to the Civil...
How Lincoln dealt with depression and found greatness
The Holland Sentinel· 1 day agoWhat do you credit President Lincoln with accomplishing? President Lincoln consistently ranks in polls as the greatest president of all time. According to the Smithsonian Institution, “Lincoln's ...
“Grandmother Of Juneteenth” Opal Lee To Receieve Presidential Medal Of Freedom | Essence
Essence· 9 hours agoDr. Opal Lee will add a new accomplishment to her resume Friday when she is awarded the Presidential...
Bowen earns 4 medals as TJ boys, AL girls both 6th at MRAC Meet
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 3 hours agoHULL, Ia. -- Thomas Jefferson's Brandon Bowen picked up four medals as the Yellow Jacket boys and ...
What the 'Dawn of the Civil War' can tell us about today's acrimonious politics
NPR· 2 days agoMy guest, journalist and historian Erik Larson, has a new book closely examining the period between the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 ...
Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon and Hamish Linklater Join A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY
Broadway World· 4 hours agoAccording to Deadline, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, and Hamish Linklater are all set to join Margot...