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	<title>From Out of the Top Hat: A Blog from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library &#38; Museum</title>
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	<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
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		<title>Benjamin Chapin Impersonates Abraham Lincoln</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/02/chapin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wightman Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Chapin’s career as a stage performer peaked on February 12, 1909, when his four-act play Abraham Lincoln at the White House finished its six-day run in New York City.  At least 1,200 customers paid 50 cents, 75 cents, or a dollar to celebrate Lincoln’s one-hundredth birthday at the matinee show of the lavishly appointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Lincoln&#8217;s Books</title>
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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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		<title>Stories from the Vault: The 13th Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/01/13thamendment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 15, The 13th Amendment: This month, we speak with Dr. James Cornelius about our recently restored copy of the 13th Amendment which has been signed and dated by Abraham Lincoln. You can also view our companion&#8220;Stories from the Vault&#8221; video which shows the document.]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Episode 15, The 13th Amendment: This month, we speak with Dr. James Cornelius about our recently restored copy of the 13th Amendment which has been signed and dated by Abraham Lincoln. You can also view our companion&quot;Stories from the Vault&quot; video which...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Episode 15, The 13th Amendment: This month, we speak with Dr. James Cornelius about our recently restored copy of the 13th Amendment which has been signed and dated by Abraham Lincoln. You can also view our companion&quot;Stories from the Vault&quot; video which shows the document.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/01/nostalgia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2012/01/nostalgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wightman Fox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Lincoln’s day, “nostalgia” meant something different than it does today.  Then it was a rarely heard medical word.  Doctors used “nostalgia” to describe a debilitating, even life-threatening, form of homesickness, one afflicting soldiers most of all.  As far as we know, Lincoln, like most people, never used the term. Only in the late 19th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories from the Vault: The Commissioner&#8217;s Sale Document for Slaves</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/12/slavedocument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/12/slavedocument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 14, The Commissioner’s Sale Document for Slaves: This month, we sit down with Dr. James Cornelius to discuss our Artifact of the Month: the broadside announcement for a slave auction in Mr. Lincoln’s home county in Kentucky.]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Episode 14, The Commissioner’s Sale Document for Slaves: This month, we sit down with Dr. James Cornelius to discuss our Artifact of the Month: the broadside announcement for a slave auction in Mr. Lincoln’s home county in Kentucky.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Episode 14, The Commissioner’s Sale Document for Slaves: This month, we sit down with Dr. James Cornelius to discuss our Artifact of the Month: the broadside announcement for a slave auction in Mr. Lincoln’s home county in Kentucky.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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		<title>Stories from the Vault: An Interview with Fritz Klein</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 13, An interview with Abraham Lincoln presenter, Fritz Klein: On this episode of Stories from the Vault, we speak with Fritz Klein who has been portraying Abraham Lincoln for over 30 years. We discuss a wide variety of topics and he delivers an amazing version of Mr. Lincoln&#8217;s Farewell Address to Springfield.]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Episode 13, An interview with Abraham Lincoln presenter, Fritz Klein: On this episode of Stories from the Vault, we speak with Fritz Klein who has been portraying Abraham Lincoln for over 30 years. We discuss a wide variety of topics and he delivers an...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Episode 13, An interview with Abraham Lincoln presenter, Fritz Klein: On this episode of Stories from the Vault, we speak with Fritz Klein who has been portraying Abraham Lincoln for over 30 years. We discuss a wide variety of topics and he delivers an amazing version of Mr. Lincoln&#039;s Farewell Address to Springfield.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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		<title>The Mystery of Nathan Simms</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/12/nathansimms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/12/nathansimms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To only a handful of individuals interested in the Lincoln assassination, the name of Nathan Simms evokes quizzical looks.  Simms is one of several individuals who claimed to have held the reins of John Wilkes Booth’s horse on the night of April 14, 1865.  Dr. Edward Steers ably demonstrates the problems with Simms’s claims and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories from the Vault: Panel Discussion Bill O&#8217;Reilly Book &#8220;Killing Lincoln&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/12/killinglincoln/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 12, &#8220;Killing Lincoln&#8221; Book Discussion: On a special podcast, a panel of historians including: James Cornelius (Lincoln Curator, ALPLM), Daniel Stowell (Director and Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln), Ron Keller (Assistant Professor of History and Political Science, Lincoln College, and Director, Lincoln Heritage Museum), and Matthew Holden (Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science, University [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Episode 12, &quot;Killing Lincoln&quot; Book Discussion: On a special podcast, a panel of historians including: James Cornelius (Lincoln Curator, ALPLM), Daniel Stowell (Director and Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln),</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Episode 12, &quot;Killing Lincoln&quot; Book Discussion: On a special podcast, a panel of historians including: James Cornelius (Lincoln Curator, ALPLM), Daniel Stowell (Director and Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln), Ron Keller (Assistant Professor of History and Political Science, Lincoln College, and Director, Lincoln Heritage Museum), and Matthew Holden (Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science, University of Illinois Springfield) discuss the Bill O&#039;Reilly/Martin Dugard book, &quot;Killing Lincoln&quot;. The panel is moderated by former Chicago Tribune reporter Patrick Reardon.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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		<title>Who Used the White House Frank?</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/12/who-used-the-white-house-frank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/12/who-used-the-white-house-frank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the oldest liberties assigned to themselves by government officials is the franking privilege.  In Europe it applied to the monarch and highest courtiers.  In the U.S. in Lincoln&#8217;s day, it allowed a President, his private secretary, a Cabinet member, First Lady, Member of Congress, and a few others to send mail for free.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln’s First and Final Love? William Herndon’s Ann Rutledge (part two)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/11/ann-rutledge2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wightman Fox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Salem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part two of a two-part essay.  Part one appeared on November 10th. Herndon’s 1866 lecture on Ann Rutledge drew the scorn of many who read the newspaper excerpts.  Critics ripped him for going public with Lincoln’s alleged buried-heart comment, a statement certain to anguish the widowed Mary Lincoln. After watching Ann’s coffin descend into the [...]]]></description>
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