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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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A Bust of Abraham Lincoln - Information on the Bust of Abraham Lincoln found in the Fords Theatre in Washington DC.
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A Challenge to the Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln - The research of one of Lincoln's descendants, according to the North Carolina tradition.
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A. Lincoln Bibliophile - Dedicated to Lincoln books, pamphlets, and periodicals relating to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Contains detailed bibliographies of all Lincoln titles published since 1990.

Abraham Lincoln - Brief biography and selection of speeches from the HTML project.
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Abraham Lincoln - Provides a biography of American President Abraham Lincoln. Includes his portrait and a list of his Supreme Court appointments.
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Abraham Lincoln - By John Drinkwater. In plain text, HTML, or as a zip file. At Project Gutenberg.
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Abraham Lincoln - Biography by James Russell Lowell. In plain text, HTML, or as a zip file.
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Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch - Cartoons, comments and poems published in the British humor magazine during the American Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace - Photographs and a virtual visitor center from this site in Kentucky conserved by the National Parks Service.

Abraham Lincoln in Political Cartoons - About 80 cartoons show the evolution of Lincoln's image from his first campaign for the presidency in 1860 through the Civil War to the early 1900s.
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404 Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum - About this museum on the LMU campus and its diverse Lincoln and Civil War collections, including personal memorabilia of President Lincoln, as well as over 20,000 books, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, paintings, and sculptures.

Abraham Lincoln Online - Presents news about Abraham Lincoln books, speeches and writings, historic places, and events.

Abraham Lincoln Research Site - Information on his life, family, accomplishments, and assassination. Retired American history teacher e-mails answers to questions.
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Abraham Lincoln: Dark Side of a Liberator - Debunks claim that Lincoln supported animal rights, and presents evidence that he was racist.
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American Dreams: The Courage To Stand Tall - A biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Another Face of Lincoln? - Possible new Lincoln discovery is a miniature painting, believed to be dated 1840.
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Bartleby.com: Abraham Lincoln - Collection of works by and about Lincoln. Includes political debates, speeches, a number of essays, and biographies.
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First Inaugural Address - Complete text of Address, with informative introduction.
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Lincoln And The Civil War - Describes some of the newspapers and magazines during the 1860-1865 period of Lincoln's presidency.

Lincoln Documents in the Illinois State Archives - A list of documents in the archive, some of which are available online.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site - Situated in Springfield IL, this is the only home that Lincoln ever owned, living there from 1844 until he was elected President in 1861.

Lincoln North - The Joseph Nathanson Collection of Lincolniana at McGill University Library. Information and virtual exhibit.

Lincoln's Constitution - Did Lincoln abuse the Constitution during the Civil War? Discussion with law professor Daniel Farber.
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Lincoln/Net - Produced by the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project to bring many of Illinois' Lincoln materials together for use by students and scholars.

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library - Selections from two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln

Mr. Lincolns's White House - A look at the White House during Lincoln's presidency, including biographies of military, political, and family figures who visited or lived there.
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On Abraham Lincoln - A hypertext reproduction of Robert Green Ingersoll's 1894 biography.

Second Inaugural Address - Complete text of Address, with informative introduction.
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Selected Speeches of Abraham Lincoln - Small sample of speeches from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler. Introductions to individual documents are by Abraham Lincoln Online.

Six Historic Americans: Abraham Lincoln - Electronic version of a text which devotes more than three hundred pages to the question Was Lincoln a Christian? From The Secular Web.

404 Smithsonian Magazine: Absence of Malice - In a new book, Historian Ronald C. White, Jr., explains why Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, given just weeks before he died, was his greatest speech
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Some Lincoln links - A few links to Lincoln sites.

The Abraham Lincoln Association - Hosts a fully-searchable online version of Lincoln's collected works.

The American President: Abraham Lincoln - Fact file and comprehensive biographical sketch based on PBS series. Also includes gallery and quotations.
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The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln - Illustrated chronology of Lincoln's life, with key points expanded upon in short articles.
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln - An Illustrated Timeline for Young Readers. Simple biography illustrated by first-graders. There's notes for teachers and a gallery for more children's contributions.
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The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia - A non-profit, tax-exempt historical society with a nationwide membership, devoted to the study of Abraham Lincoln since 1935.
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The Lincoln Museum - Official site of this museum, situated in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The Living Abe Lincoln - Presents a 45-minute living history program geared toward elementary and middle school students. Includes requirements for organizing a school assembly and contact information.
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The Presidential Papers of Abraham Lincoln Online - An online edition of the presidential papers of Abraham Lincoln.
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The White House: Abraham Lincoln - Biography, speeches and quotes from the White House's official site.
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