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Efforts underway to restore crumbling site where Abraham Lincoln began his political rise
Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...
This emancipation proclamation predates President Lincoln’s
Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President ...
After years of neglect, an Illinois village with ties to Abraham Lincoln is getting a refresh
The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...
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Mississippi State University commemorates 160th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination with lecture, exhibit
Mississippi State University Libraries offers the public a chance to step back in time and experience the pivotal moment of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination April 14 with a newly curated ...
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Knowing the Presidents: Abraham Lincoln
In addition to being president ... of state activity, such as the approval of a transcontinental railway and the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 to settle western lands, he laid the foundations of a ...