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The Battle of Gettysburg is still not fully over
This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...
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Residents gather in Springfield to read Frederick Douglass’ famous speech
Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass first delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. It was part of ...
This Day in History - July 9: Liberty Bell visits Lincoln
On this day in 1896, William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska, delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the ...
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Lincoln anti-death penalty vigil marks 30 years; 'We thought we'd be ...
They've been cursed at, threatened and spat upon, but after 30 years, a group of anti-death penalty activists still holds monthly vigils on the lawn of the Nebraska governor's residence.
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Residents celebrate Independence Day with a community reading of Frederick Douglass’ historic ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ speech
"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...
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President Lincoln's inaugural address. March 4, 1861 : Lincoln, Abraham ...
by Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Publication date 1861?] Topics United States -- Politics and government Civil War, 1861-1865 Publisher [Washington? Printed at the National Republican office Collection ...