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Gettysburg gift shop yanks bobblehead doll of John Wilkes Booth

Last updated Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 2:46pm

The bookstore at the Gettysburg National Military Park has decided that it's not such a great idea to sell a bobblehead of John Wilkes Booth, the notorious Confederate sympathizer and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Famous Mary Todd Lincoln painting called a fraud

John Byrne Chicago Tribune

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 6:04pm

CHICAGO -- A celebrated portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln that hung for years in the Illinois governor's mansion in Springfield was an elaborate fraud apparently concocted to swindle President Abraham Lincoln's descendants, according to the curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

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Union Pacific celebrating 150 years in Utah, across U.S.

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 7:12am

This year, Union Pacific celebrates 150 years since President Abraham Lincoln signed it into existence. The story of the railroad company is tied closely to the modernization of the American West. People and freight began using the railroad to travel across the country 150 years ago and continue to do so to this day.

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Series makes sense of Civil War at Pleasant Valley library

J. Michael Call Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 8:41am

What happens when an idealist goes to war? How did the bloodiest battle in all of American history go down? And how did those who witnessed the Civil War firsthand write about a war that continues to send shock waves through American culture 150 years later?

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Researcher altered date on Lincoln pardon

Chicago Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 6:28pm

CHICAGO -- An Abraham Lincoln researcher in Virginia has admitted that he altered the date on a pardon to make it appear that the document was the among the last official business handled by the 16th president before his assassination, according to the National Archives.

Thomas Lowry, of Woodbridge, Va., is said to have admitted he changed the date from April 14, 1864, to April 14, 1865, the day of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater in Washington, according to a statement on the National Archives website.

Lowry gained a measure of fame from the document, which pardone

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