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Friday's state track: Burlington's Hill successfully defends Class 4A shot put title
Burlington’s Kylee Hill strikes a pose on the podium after her win in the Class 4A girls shot put Friday at the Iowa High ...
Abraham Lincoln artifacts to be auctioned to pay off foundation’s debt
The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...
Rare Abraham Lincoln artifacts sell for nearly $8 million at Chicago auction
The anonymous “Paddle 1231” won most of the priciest artifacts, including a lock of Lincoln’s hair and a pair of ...
Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction
Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln have been auctioned off, separated from a collection that was ...
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Abraham Lincoln artifacts that were once in a museum are going up for auction
The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction.
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Abraham Lincoln artifacts that were once in a museum are going up for auction
Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...
Michael Peregrine: Chicago helped give rise to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency 165 years ago
Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.
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Trump, Lincoln and a ‘Habeas Corpus Threat’
No president has ever done so without Congress, Mr. Galston writes, citing President Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War detention of Confederate prisoners. Article I of the Constitution declares that ...
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After 150 years, Mary Lincoln’s ‘madness’ still haunts American psyche
After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and ...