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    • 65 Ratings
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    Should the North Celebrate the Defeat of the Confederacy?

    FEBRUARY 9, 2011 10:56AM

    By john blumenthal


    Topics: dred scott, william lloyd garrison, abraham lincoln, appomattox day, the south shall rise again, south carolina, mint juleps, boston massacre, british, pearl harbor, japanese, poland, germans, gettysburg, battle re-enactments, jefferson davis, confederate flags, war of secession, southern states

    • 35 Ratings
    • 1253 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    Abe, You Missed The Mark

    FEBRUARY 21, 2011 9:45AM

    By Ann Nichols


    Topics: president's day, platitudes, depression, mary todd lincoln, abraham lincoln

    • Editor's Pick
    • 31 Ratings
    • 18479 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    New Lincoln Photo -- Do Some Fact-Checking, Media!

    MARCH 11, 2009 1:02PM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: cnn, associate press, keya morgan, white house, photograph, abraham lincoln

    • 31 Ratings
    • 1909 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    His 200th Year

    FEBRUARY 12, 2009 8:09AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: president's day, celebration, abraham lincoln, birthday, lincon bicentennial, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 1577 Views
    • 51 Comments
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    Do You Know Who’s in Your Wallet?

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 10:40AM

    By john blumenthal


    Topics: ike, aaron burr, theodore roosevelt, fdr, truman, john f. kennedy, salmon p. chase, abraham lincoln, alexander hamilton, thomas jefferson, science, politics, open call, design, comedy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 29 Ratings
    • 4871 Views
    • 59 Comments
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    In defense of American imperialism

    AUGUST 22, 2012 12:54PM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: belief/religion, books, american imperialism, time to start thinking, green party, eisenhower, teddy roosevelt, abraham lincoln, national defense university, current political climate, business, economy, news, politics

    • 29 Ratings
    • 1101 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    RFK & Lincoln on Violence & Hate

    JANUARY 10, 2011 10:13AM

    By Rw005g


    Topics: non-violence, mlk, martin luther king jr., martin luther king, mlk, hate, violence, abraham lincoln, lincoln, kennedy, robert kennedy, robert f. kennedy, rfk

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 8540 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    The Real Rival: Al Gore

    DECEMBER 6, 2008 6:40PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: climate change, al gore, this is reality campaign, barack obama, salmon chase, abraham lincoln, politics

    • 22 Ratings
    • 2096 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    Lincoln and Leprechauns

    FEBRUARY 11, 2009 11:57AM

    By Lainey


    Topics: abraham lincoln, lincoln, st. patrick's day, education, schools, assassination, anniversary, te

    • 21 Ratings
    • 1729 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Lincoln's biggest mistake

    FEBRUARY 12, 2009 10:33AM

    By OEsheepdog


    Topics: politics, writing, lincoln's birthday, abraham lincoln, american history, gettysburg address

    • 19 Ratings
    • 1647 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    “Now He Belongs to the Ages”: Lincoln Dies

    APRIL 14, 2011 1:54PM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: tragedy, conspiracy, andrew johnson, reconstrution, our american cousin, ford's theatre, the tragically misguided john wilkes booth, confederacy, robert e lee, ulysses grant, tad lincoln, robert lincoln, mary lincoln, gideon welles, edwin stanton, william seward, john wilkes booth, civil war, assassination, abraham lincoln

    • 19 Ratings
    • 532 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Dead Authors Speaking

    JANUARY 16, 2011 10:12AM

    By Lyn LeJeune


    Topics: video, politics, poetry, fiction, books, belief/religion, the road not taken, robert frost, faulkner at virginia, william faulkner, " captain! my captain!, walt whitman, gettysburg address, abraham lincoln, ode to a nightingale, f. scott fitzgerald, you can't be neutral on a moving train, howard zinn, teddy roosevelt, roosevelt

    • 16 Ratings
    • 914 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    Do You Know What Today Is??

    NOVEMBER 19, 2008 10:43AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: gettysburg, lorraine berry, politics, war, abraham lincoln, anniversaries

    • 14 Ratings
    • 890 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Antietam, part 2: Opportunity Lost

    SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 10:14AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: the road to emancipation, stonewall jackson, abraham lincoln, giden welles, robert e. lee, george b. mcclellan, army of northern virginia, army of the potomac, civil war, sharpsburg, antietam

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1893 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Disobedience, Civil and Not-So-Civil

    APRIL 26, 2009 9:07AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: recourse, impeachment, impeach, informed electorate, re-election, election, democracy, we the people, democratic rule, checks and balances, dick cheney, cheney, george w bush, george bush, bush, frost/nixon, frost, nixon, lincoln, abraham lincoln, 24, time bomb, ticking, torture, ticking time bomb scenario, war, co, conscientious objector, unjust law, civil disobedience, politics

    • 13 Ratings
    • 2605 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Loving the Unpoetical Midwest, Especially Now (poem)

    MAY 5, 2009 4:33PM

    By Hells Bells


    Topics: don't call it boring it has its own kind of beauty, grain elevator, lighthouse, ocean, geography, midwest, corn, schwinn typhoon, abraham lincoln, poetry

    • 12 Ratings
    • 1908 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    History's Great Plagiarizers

    FEBRUARY 23, 2011 11:25PM

    By Procopius


    Topics: rolling stones, history, sam houston, john kenneth galbraith, john kennedy, winston churchill, abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson

    • 12 Ratings
    • 1159 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Five Ways that Obama Should NOT Emulate Lincoln

    FEBRUARY 12, 2009 5:43PM

    By Michael Fox


    Topics: team of rivals, supreme court, slavery, politics, obama cabinet, obama and lincoln, obama administration, obama, noah haynes swayne, news, lincoln adminstration, lincoln, john mclean, joe biden, hillary clinton, hannibal hamlin, civil war, barack obama and abraham lincoln, andrew johnson, amerian civil war, abraham lincoln

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1255 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Deficits don't matter to America's Oligarchy

    SEPTEMBER 2, 2012 10:47AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: oligarchyb, populist movement, gold standard, speculative bubbles, manufacturing, alexander hamilton, cross of gold, william jennings bryan, greenback party, financial crisis, wall street, equality, entrepreneurship, crony capitalism, big government, kevin phillips, abraham lincoln, debts, fiscal conservative, president obama, democratic party, mitt romney, paul ryan, capitalism, labor, austerity, inflation, roaring 20s, gilded age, federal stimulus, revolutionary war, civil war, deficits, tea party, oligarchy, republican party, economics, politics

    • 9 Ratings
    • 867 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Antietam, part 4: The Aftermath

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 11:36AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: battle of antietam, army of the potomac, george b. mcclellan, ambrose burnside, army of northern virginia, robert e. lee, j.e.b. stuart, 1862 1863, american civil war, matthew brady, war photography, civilian reaction, abraham lincoln, emancipation proclamation

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