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Lincoln's Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois by governor and first lady
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 hours agoThe document in which Abraham Lincoln set the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S....
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoOn June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
Obama’s doing the delegate thing
Politico· 7 hours agoGood Tuesday morning, Illinois. Gov. JB Pritzker and first lady MK Pritzker are announcing a “historic document donation” to the Abraham Lincoln...
From city streets to wilderness trails: The Hex Technical Backpack V2 does it all
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoIt meets the needs of both kinds of travelers, without sacrificing the functionality of a modern...
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Goshen News· 3 hours agoIllinois' governor and first lady have donated a key Civil War document signed by Abraham Lincoln to the presidential library and museum that bears his ...
Abraham Lincoln's speech at Dayton's Old Courthouse: Did he get 'utmost attention' or was he 'not a...
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 5 days agoApr. 25—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate ...
Bill Banfield’s ‘Edmonia’ celebrates a sculptor who carved her own niche - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 2 hours agoLiving in Rome, Italy, for most of her working life, she created pieces depicting biblical scenes...
How a Schoeneck woman turned a piece of Reading history into a year-round Christmas tree
Lancaster Online· 4 days agoBack in the 1970s, Elaine Bowman attended the wedding of a former student at the old Hotel Abraham ...
Turning Down the Heat Is the Key to Managing Anger
Dr. Samantha Boardman via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoSource: NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll In a recent Substack, I wrote about Abraham Lincoln’s famous strategy for managing anger. Whenever his feathers were...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
AOL· 5 days agoOn this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm ...