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What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOn June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
Obama’s doing the delegate thing
Politico· 6 days agoGood Tuesday morning, Illinois. Gov. JB Pritzker and first lady MK Pritzker are announcing a “historic document donation” to the Abraham Lincoln...
Harold Holzier on Abraham Lincoln's attitude to the Irish and immigration
Irish Central· 1 day agoIn a recent talk at the Irish Historical Society in New York, celebrated Lincoln scholar Harold...
Juneteenth is here — here's how to celebrate with family and friends
TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAlthough President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, many...
Do We Still Elect Nice, Boring Guys Like John Avlon to Congress These Days?
New York Magazine· 6 days ago“You know,” he told me, the one where “there’s the guy standing up in a town hall — like an...
Arizona Lawmakers Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban, Creating Rift on the Right
New York Times· 5 days agoGov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is expected to sign it on Thursday. Jack Healy reported from inside...
Inside Biden’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony honoring Black luminaries, including the...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIn a packed East Room, President Biden calls the class of recipients ‘incredible people’ whose...
Supreme Court throws its weight behind Trump's MAGA movement with dangerous consequences
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 3 days agoImagine for a moment that instead of daily reports from a New York Courtroom where Donald Trump is on trial for falsifying business records to describe a payoff to a woman with whom he had a ...
Tribune editorial: Don’t let a few radicals get in the way of free speech — or democracy — in Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune· 1 day agoBy that standard, the Utah branch of the Party of Lincoln performed very poorly last weekend. The...
8 Hotels With Gallery-Worthy Art Collections
Forbes· 5 days agoIt’s not unusual for a boutique hotel to partner with a local gallery to display a rotating array of pieces or for a property to commission new works to...