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President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on Wednesday. “The Civil War ...

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In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...