The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.
Tag: Lincoln, Abraham
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What We Celebrate When We Celebrate the Fourth of July
Abraham Lincoln knew why Thomas Jefferson mattered.
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The Civil War’s Lessons for Avoiding Default
President Lincoln and Republicans in Congress recognized that preserving America’s credit was the key to financing the Civil War, and therefore to the government’s survival.
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1776 Is Not Just What Ron DeSantis Wants It to Be
The question is not which allies he hopes to empower or which elections he hopes to win, but what order he hopes to create and usher into being.
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Was the Civil War Inevitable?
A historian of the conflict traces the path to disunion in the 1850s — and the lessons it holds for our own era of deep division.