Abraham Lincoln

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/25/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln’s Leap From a Window, and 4 Other Ways Lawmakers Have Fled Votes

  Republican state senators in Oregon have disappeared this month in an attempt to block a vote on climate change legislation. Minority parties have resorted to similar stunts for generations. One sure result: More division.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  June 26, 2019
  

  Was Abraham Lincoln an Atheist?

  by Becky Little

  As a young man, Lincoln openly admitted to his lack of faith. As a politician, he spoke about God but refused to say he was a Christian.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  A New Lincoln Bible, From a Mantel to a Presidential Library

  More than 150 years later, historians have discovered the Bible for the first time, a unique artifact of the 16th president’s life that they did not even know existed.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/8/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln’s $6 Million Hat

  It’s a relic of a beloved president. But did he ever wear it?

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• 5/1/19
  

  Sidney Blumenthal on Abraham Lincoln and Why History Always Matters

  To celebrate the History News Network's arrival at the George Washington University, HNN hosted "Why History Always Matters." As part of the event, HNN Editor Kyla Sommers interviewed Mr. Blumenthal on the importance of history and his 5-part biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/17/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch

  by Mark M. Smith

  No one was better at tactile politics than Abraham Lincoln.

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• 3/24/19
  

  Political Leadership and the Need for a New American Story

  by Walter G. Moss

  Both Lincoln and FDR understood that to reach people, to motivate them, to win them over, a president had to appeal to their emotions, and storytelling was one way of doing so.

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• 3/24/19
  

  A House Once More Divided

  by Georgiann Baldino

  Lincoln understood that involved citizens preserve the union, and he taught a vital lesson that only when human rights are respected is democracy worth preserving.

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  3/8/19
  

  The Constitution must be our ‘political religion’: Remembering Lincoln’s words

  by Eli Merritt

  President Lincoln's words remind us that to survive as a democracy we must transcend our racial, religious, regional and party affiliations, and embrace the Constitution and the rule of law.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  3/10/19
  

  Trump campaign adviser dismisses White House diversity question, asks about black people in Lincoln admin

  "Is Abraham Lincoln a racist because he didn't have a black person in his West Wing?," asked Trump 2020 campaign adviser Katrina Pierson.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/4/19
  

  ‘Hot Lincoln’ Stands in Long Line of Attractive Presidential Sculptures

  Before hot Lincoln, there was ripped Washington, nude Napoleon and muscular ancient Greek sculptures  

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• 2/16/19
  

  America Needs a Moral Leader in 2020

  by Donald J. Fraser

  And we can look to Abraham Lincoln as an example. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/7/19
  

  In Land of Lincoln, Long-Buried Traces of a Race Riot Come to the Surface

  by Megan Gannon

  Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of five houses that lay witness to the tragedy that set Springfield, Illinois, on fire in 1908.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/8/19
  

  Lincoln's Legacy and the Government Shutdown: The Suicide of a Great Democracy

  by George Packer

  A shutdown looks like the beginning of the end that Lincoln always knew was possible.

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• 11-18-18
  

  This Is Telling: It’s Impossible to Imagine Donald Trump Giving the Gettysburg Address

  by Louis P. Masur

  It was 155 years ago that Lincoln delivered his paean to democracy and liberty.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11-12-18
  

  America’s Struggle for Moral Coherence

  by Andrew Delbanco

  The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.

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• 11/4/18
  

  The GOP Needs to Stop Calling Itself the Party of Lincoln

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Lincoln would have nothing to do with a party of immigrant-haters.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-23-18
  

  F.B.I. and Expert Reports Cast Doubt That Celebrated Stovepipe Hat Was Lincoln’s

  Over the last five years, the nonprofit, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, has commissioned studies by the F.B.I. and independent historians to determine whether the hat genuinely belonged to Lincoln.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-17-18
  

  Harold Holzer is selling his collection of Lincolnania

  It includes more than 700 paintings and other material related to the 16th president.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  

  A House Still Divided

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  In 1858, Abraham Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” Today, the country remains divided by racism—and the threat is as existential as it was before the Civil War.