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07/18/11 "Honest Abe" loved tall tales, but there's no record he ever saw a Bigfoot. Still, the same area where Abraham Lincoln came to fame (Chatham, IL, a suburb of Springfield) has experienced a rash of unexplained . . .
07/18/11 LERNA - A ceremony scheduled for Thursday will mark the start of the effort to expand the cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's father is buried.
07/14/11 Historical societies are checking their records for visits by Barry H. Landau, who is accused of stealing documents signed by Abraham Lincoln from the Maryland Historical Society.
07/12/11 The historian, Barry H. Landau and his colleague, Jason Savedoff are accused of stealing documents from the Maryland Historical Society, including some signed by Abraham Lincoln.
07/12/11 WASHINGTON -- A presidential historian and author, Barry H. Landau, was arrested with a colleague on Saturday in Baltimore on charges of stealing historical documents from the Maryland Historical Society, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln.
07/09/11 Prep Baseball Wednesday, July 6 Boyer Valley 3, Missouri Valley 2 Lewis Central 5-8, Creston 0-7 St. Albert 11-13, Thomas Jefferson 3-4 Treynor 22, Griswold 6 Tri-Center 13, A-H-S-T 0 (5 inn.) Western Valley Conference Ridge View 6, IKM-Manning 0 Thursday, July 7 Glenwood at Lewis Central at Iowa Western, 6 p.m. Abraham Lincoln at Sioux City North (2), 4 p.m. Sioux City West at Thomas Jefferson ...
07/08/11 LECOMPTON, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas community with a key role in Abraham Lincoln's election as president is hosting a traveling exhibit on Lincoln's life and times. The exhibit is on display at the Territorial Capital Museum in Lecompton through July 24. It's a project of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Institute project director Susan Saidenberg says it's fitting that the exhibit ...
07/06/11 You don't have to travel to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania to see a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair.
07/06/11 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool," Abraham Lincoln famously said, "than to speak out and remove all doubt." One of...
07/03/11 Children's author Jen Bryant will sign "Abe's Fish: A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln" from 11 a.
07/03/11 Prep Baseball Saturday, July 2 Abraham Lincoln 8, St. Albert 2 Tuesday, July 5 Harlan at Lewis Central at Iowa Western, 6 p.m. Abraham Lincoln at Sioux City West (2), 4 p.m. Sioux City East at Thomas Jefferson (2), 5:30 p.m.
07/02/11 On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as part of a far-reaching conspiracy.
07/02/11 If we haven't been there already, here are 10 sites we Americans need to see before we join the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and the rest of those patriots in the sky.
07/02/11 After Lauren Meeker reached on a single, Lauren Rommel sent Abraham Lincoln home a winner with a two-run, walk-off homer in a 7-6 win over Class 3-A No. 11 Sergeant Bluff-Luton Thursday.
06/28/11 The author imagines what might have happened if well-respected stage actress Sarah Bernhardt and Abraham Lincoln's widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, had spent an afternoon together. It's a fact that on Oct. 23, 1880, Bernhart rescued the former first lady from death at sea. Interspersed with the imagined story of the two ladies is the tale of how John Wilkes Booth prepared to kill the president.Hamilton ...
06/28/11 Which past leader does Barack Obama most closely resemble? His admirers, not all of them liberals, used to compare him to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
06/26/11 Lynx Split Chelsea Acosta finished the day five for five with two home runs, three RBIs, and three runs scored as Abraham Lincoln defeated Fremont-Mills 3-0 and lost to Lewis Central 5-3.
06/25/11 Prep Baseball Friday, June 24 Abraham Lincoln 7-11, Thomas Jefferson 0-1 Saturday, June 25 Abraham Lincoln at Des Moines Lincoln (2), 4 p.m. St. Albert, Harlan at Carroll Kuemper tourney Clarinda Academy at Clarinda Shenandoah at Essex Western Iowa Conference tournament Consolation: Treynor 7, Missouri Valley 2 Championship: Tri-Center 9, Underwood 1 Prep Softball Friday, June 24 Lynx Classic ...
06/24/11 Jackson Daly, 12, brought the Alameda Sun to Springfield, Ill., to visit Abraham Lincoln's home, which is behind him. Lincoln lived in the 12-room, Greek Revival house for 17 years, and it was there he learned he was elected our16th president...
06/22/11 Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman and Mary Chestnut all will make appearances in Westerville over the July 4 holiday weekend.
06/20/11 Perhaps President Abraham Lincoln's famous words of hope for a "... government of the people, by the people, for the people..." will yet ring true again -- with a little help from Russ Feingold and his growing movement. | 
