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  • July 2008

    • Abe Lincoln Artifacts May Stay in Indiana

      newser  |  Fort Wayne Journal Gazette  |  Jul 17, 08 7:46 PM CDT

      Abe Lincoln Artifacts May Stay in Indiana

      A prized collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts and memorabilia may not leave his boyhood home of Indiana after all. A coalition of state groups, including the Allen County Public Library and the Indiana State Museum, is one of the three finalists to take control of the collection housed by the recently closed Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, the News-Sentinel reports. A decision is expected in January. More »

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      history  • Indiana  • Abraham Lincoln

    • Obama as Writer: He's the 'Real Deal'

      newser  |  New Republic  |  Jul 8, 08 2:37 PM CDT

      Obama as Writer: He's the 'Real Deal'

      If it's true that the style is the man, then it makes sense, literary critic Andrew Delbanco writes in the New Republic , to take the measure of Barack Obama from his memoirs. Taking a tour of Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope , Delbanco finds a bit of overwriting, a propensity for cinematic flourishes, a sensitivity to the complexities of character, and an ability to use local details to "open out into universal experience." More »

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      Barack Obama  • literature  • Abraham Lincoln  • leadership

    • Flip-Flops Don't Always Give Us Blisters

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 2, 08 10:34 AM CDT

      Flip-Flops Don't Always Give Us Blisters

      Flip-flops are an easy summer target for media covering the presidential campaign, Ruth Marcus writes in the Washington Post . But, she notes, it's important to remember that the issues are more important than the candidates' changing views on them. "We in the media risk becoming the enablers of inanity by acting as if all flip-flops are created equal, and equally bad." More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • election 2008  • flip flop  • Abraham Lincoln

  • June 2008

    • Lincoln's Failings Offer Modern Lesson

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 6, 08 7:58 AM CDT

      Lincoln's Failings Offer Modern Lesson

      Abraham Lincoln had his dark days. For a while, Lincoln was mercury-pill-popping, sleep-deprived wreck who briefly considered suicide. “Lincoln went Crazy,” wrote friend Joshua Speed. “It was horrible.” Lincoln, of course, grew out of it, facing his flaws in a way today’s leaders ought to emulate, writes David Brooks in the New York Times. More »

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      politics  • history  • Abraham Lincoln  • sin

    • McCain Dares Obama to 10 Informal Debates

      newser  |  Time  |  Jun 4, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      McCain Dares Obama to 10 Informal Debates

      John McCain challenged Barack Obama today to fight mano a mano in a series of 10 intimate town-hall meetings between now and the Democratic primary in late August. The Republican's invitation, delivered in a speech and said to be modeled on a proposed Kennedy-Goldwater series, would be “free from the regimented trappings, rules, and spectacle of formal debates.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • John F. Kennedy  • Abraham Lincoln  • debates  • town hall meeting  • Barry Goldwater

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Lincoln Letter Sells for $3.4M

      newser  |  CNN  |  Apr 4, 08 10:08 AM CDT

      Lincoln Letter Sells for $3.4M

      An 1864 letter from Abraham Lincoln to Massachusetts schoolchildren fetched a record $3.4 million at auction yesterday, a record for an American manuscript, CNN reports. In the letter, Lincoln responded to a petition from 195 youngsters asking him to "free all the little slave children of this country" with a heartfelt reply saying it was God's will that they be freed. An anonymous American collector bought the letter. More »

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      auction  • Sotheby's  • letters  • Abraham Lincoln  • slavery  • Civil War

  • March 2008
  • January 2008
  • November 2007

    • Rare Disorder May Have Afflicted Lincoln

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 26, 07 2:20 PM CST

      Rare Disorder May Have Afflicted Lincoln

      Abraham Lincoln may have been the first known victim of an exceedingly rare genetic disorder, and the 16th President was probably dying of cancer when he was assassinated, an expert says. The cancer-causing syndrome would account for his height, bumpy lips, and other conditions—but corroborating the theory with DNA testing is another story, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Abraham Lincoln  • rare diseases

    • Study Traces Europe's Bets on Civil War

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Nov 16, 07 8:44 AM CST

      Study Traces Europe's Bets on Civil War

      Studying sales of Confederacy bonds in Amsterdam during the US Civil War, two economists say they're able to judge how European traders saw the South's chances of victory, the Wall Street Journal reports. Investors pegged the rebels' odds at 42% early on, but their 1863 defeat at Gettysburg sank bond prices. More »

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      economics  • Abraham Lincoln  • Civil War  • Confederacy

  • September 2007

    • Feds Give Abe's 5-Spot a Facelift

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Sep 20, 07 4:20 PM CDT

      Feds Give Abe's 5-Spot a Facelift

      When you pull out a $5 bill next spring, you'll still see Honest Abe—but you'll also see a bunch of purple and gray, some big number fives, and new watermarks and security threads. Sick of pesky counterfeiters bleaching the fiver and turning it into a C-note, the feds unveiled the redesigned bill today, the AP reports. More »

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      US dollar  • currency  • Abraham Lincoln  • US Mint  • counterfeit  • watermark

  • August 2007

    • Why the 'Rove Presidency' Failed

      newser  |  Atlantic Monthly  |  Aug 13, 07 10:07 AM CDT

      Why the 'Rove Presidency' Failed

      With Karl Rove about to ankle the White House, the Atlantic's cover story on Rove as the principal architect of the Bush presidency becomes prescient. Joshua Green explores why the mastermind of W.'s two election victories—one of the best political minds of a generation—was unable to fulfill any of his considerable ambitions for the occupant of the Oval Office, despite having a Republican Congress for six years. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • White House  • Karl Rove  • Abraham Lincoln  • FDR

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