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It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...
IDAHO FALLS — President ... Lincoln signed the Idaho Territorial Act, forming Idaho as a U.S. territory in 1863. “People ...
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 ...
Mississippi State University Libraries offers the public a chance to step back in time and reflect on the historic significance of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination with a lecture and guided ...
Lincoln returned from the cargo trip and decided to stay in New Salem, about 20 miles northwest of Springfield. By the time Lincoln left the town in 1837, he was a state legislator and his ...