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Learn the Abraham Lincoln story through rare artifacts

Christina Shutt, Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, joins John Williams to ...

The True Story of Mary Todd Lincoln: What Broadway's “Oh, Mary! ”Got Right and Wrong About the Troubled First Lady

The Tony-winning play paints Abraham Lincoln's wife as a boozy aspiring actress, but how does history really remember her?
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A true history of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Conspiracy of 1865 / Louis J. Weichmann ; edited by Floyd E. Risvold

Includes 23 letters written by A. C. Richards to Weichmann from Apr. 1898 to Nov. 1901.
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Editorial: Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation offers words of encouragement

In early October 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation. "I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are ...