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"My name is Ralph C. Lincoln and I am honored to be an 11th generation Lincoln who also shares the same great-grandfather as one of America's greatest presidents. If you visit Fayette County in ...
When Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, felled by an assassin’s bullet at the end of the Civil War, he left behind a considerable legacy. But Lincoln did not leave behind many descendants. In 1985 ...
"When you are an undocumented immigrant, celebrating the Fourth of July is to resist being defined by fear and panic." ...
The report said the hat did not appear to be in Lincoln’s size, that it was once sold by a downstate antique shop for just $1 in the 1950s and that descendants of the hat’s original owner were ...
A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in May. Ranging from boyhood scrawlings to the gloves he wore on the ...
I n May, a massive collection of Abraham Lincoln's belongings will be heading to the auction block. A total of 150 objects, including boyhood scrawlings, keepsakes, the bloodstained gloves he wore ...
Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of ...
The report said the hat did not appear to be in Lincoln’s size, that it was once sold by a downstate antique shop for just $1 in the 1950s and that descendants of the hat’s original owner were ...