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Lawmakers Vote to Drop State Song Urging Secession
There's no law against singing about "Northern scum," but Maryland legislators have decided they don't want the lyrics in their state song anymore. A measure to remove the official designation from...
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Exhibit: Mrs. Lincoln's 'Erratic' Behavior Was Due to Grief
After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, descended into a cycle of what History.com calls "erratic" behavior, complete with "unearthly shrieks" and "terrible...
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GOP Governor Nixes 'Relic of the Confederacy'
Since 1939, "Maryland, My Maryland" has served as Maryland's state song, but its 82-year-old reign has just come to an end. On Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan OKed a repeal of the Civil War-era tune after a...
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Researcher Claims to Have Settled an Enduring Lincoln Question
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln appeared at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg Battlefield and predicted that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here."...
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This Painting Allegedly Made Mary Lincoln Faint
A painting of Abraham Lincoln so lifelike it was said to have made Mary Lincoln faint when she first set eyes on it at an exhibition in 1876 is now on display at the National Portrait Gallery in...
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'Aber-clam Lincoln' May Be as Old as Honest Abe
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 and apparently so, too, was Abra-clam Lincoln, believed to be the fourth oldest clam ever discovered. Blaine Parker of Florida was collecting shellfish for chowder when...
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Unpublished Lincoln Letter About DC Defenses to Be Sold
More than 160 years after it was written, a letter from President Abraham Lincoln sent during the Civil War has been discovered. Nathan Raab, a collector of Civil War artifacts, plans to put the letter...
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Rare Memento From Night Lincoln Was Shot Just Sold for Big Bucks
A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865—the night President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth—have sold at auction for $262,500, according to a Boston-based auction...
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Lincoln Pardoned Ancestor of Biden, Records Show
Some presidential pardons are turkeys, sure. But a newly discovered one has echoed through the centuries to be particularly meaningful to the current president. On Sept. 1, 1864, an order from...
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