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	<title>From Out of the Top Hat: A Blog from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library &#38; Museum &#187; James Cornelius</title>
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	<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
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		<title>Another Problem with Noah Brooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 19:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists may be the warp and woof of contemporary history, but if you pick at the threads too hard, the cloth can begin to unravel.  This blog first poked at Noah Brooks on December 13, 2010 (by chance, the anniversary of the battle of Fredericksburg), but for this week&#8217;s battle of Chancellorsville, 150th anniversary, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Generations of an Illinois Family: Two Abraham Lincoln Letters, One Gift!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Thomas Kenney of Massachusetts accepted 160 acres in Illinois from President James Monroe in 1818 as partial thanks for his service in the War of 1812, he set the later owners of that land along a path to local notoriety and friendship with a giant &#8212; Abraham Lincoln.  Now the historic treasures of John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3.5 x 2.25 inches, 500 faces</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2013/01/500faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What fits into your shirt pocket, is a little bendable but basically sturdy, and shows the photographic portraits of nearly 500 people? No, not your iPhone. The answer is the carte de visite (cdv) pictured here. It is backmarked for Ashford, Brothers &#38; Co., of 76 Newgate Street, London, and was probably created in 1863 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pair Tree &#8230; of Names</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/12/names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Herndon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the Christmas season has put partridges on your pear tree, parse the pairs below.  Even in small towns, common surnames can lead you up a tree. Springfield, Illinois, in the early 1840s was home to about 3,000 people.  If you owned a shop or took the Whig newspaper or ever showed up in court, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly Discovered Letters about Mary Lincoln&#8217;s Desperation and Debt</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/11/cash-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/11/cash-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Lincoln]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three siblings in the fourth generation of descent from a Wall Street banker, Benjamin B. Sherman, have donated three letters and a ledger book to the Presidential Library &#38; Museum.  The material concerns a public collection taken up in 1865-66 to support Mary, Robert, and Tad Lincoln in their time of woe.  Below are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Recorder of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Words: Susan McCulloch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There was a cabinet meeting that afternoon.  General Grant, who had just returned, gave a very interesting account of the state of the South, and the good feeling manifested by the officers of the Confederate army, who all said that they were ready to lay down their arms and go home to work.  Something was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln as the Duke of Wellington</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American presidents get compared most often to, or with, one another.  Was Lincoln as great as Washington?  Was Reagan the speaker that Kennedy was?  Perhaps on occasion they get compared in military terms: was Eisenhower as fine a commanding figure as Washington?  Was Grant as daring as Andrew Jackson? Comparisons to, or with, foreign leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An authorized forgery of Abraham Lincoln?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Hay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about a century the Lincoln profession has analyzed statements by John Milton Hay that he wrote many of Lincoln&#8217;s letters, and/or signed his name to many documents, with the president&#8217;s acquiescence.  Hay was the assistant private secretary in the Executive Mansion for the entirety of Lincoln&#8217;s presidency, serving under secretary John Nicolay, his friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Revelations about the Abraham Lincoln Family</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/03/revelations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/03/revelations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alplm.org/blog/?p=1186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Both large and small new discoveries or points for debate come up nearly every month about Lincoln and his family.  Recent months have been richer than most. Moving from the small to the large, or perhaps from the amusing to the consequential, we find these four nuggets. 1. Vera Kaikobad, in the journal Medical Acupuncture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Lincoln&#8217;s Books</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/01/jacklincoln/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most children have big plans, and Jack Lincoln, grandson of the 16th president, had at least one such plan. The second of three children and the only son of Robert and Mary Lincoln, he saw more from an early age than most children ever get to see.  Born in Chicago in 1873, he moved at [...]]]></description>
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