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Home » Abraham Lincoln » Page 5

Tag: Abraham Lincoln

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American pastoral

by Whet Moser March 18, 2008August 19, 2021

Taking up the biracial presidential candidate’s burden.

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How to really enforce Buy Nothing Day

by Whet Moser February 20, 2008August 19, 2021

How Mary Todd Lincoln shopped herself into a sanitarium.

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Lincoln the Lover

by Whet Moser February 12, 2008August 19, 2021

Celebrating Lincoln’s Birthday and Valentine’s Day with “Lincoln the Lover.”

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Lincoln’s Birthday blogging: The meaning of “commander in chief”

by Whet Moser February 12, 2008August 19, 2021

Lincoln’s Birthday blogging: The meaning of “commander in chief”

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Lincoln’s Birthday blogging: Threads of history

by Whet Moser February 12, 2008August 19, 2021

Lincoln’s Birthday blogging: Threads of history

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The second best thing I read all week

by Whet Moser April 13, 2007August 19, 2021

Abraham Lincoln’s hat could go for considerably more than that of the legendary Sir Donald Bradman.

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Publisher’s wife gets neat assignment

by Michael Miner February 9, 2007August 19, 2021

Jennifer Hunter, the wife of the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, rubs the staff the wrong way by getting the plum Obama beat.

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