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	<title>From Out of the Top Hat: A Blog from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library &#38; Museum &#187; Presidential Museum</title>
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	<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
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		<title>Stories from the Vault: The 13th Amendment</title>
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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 at 52: Health Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marfan Syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Fort Sumter was fired upon in April 1861, formally starting a Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was 52 years and 2 months old. I am now 52 years and 2 months old. Though I am not president, perhaps some perspective on the many questions about his physical and mental health during the exigent days of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories from the Vault: Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Bloody Gloves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 2, Mr. Lincoln&#8217;s Bloody Gloves: We talk with Dr. James Cornelius about our featured artifact of the month: Mr. Lincoln&#8217;s Bloody Gloves. We also talk about events surrounding Mr. Lincoln&#8217;s assassination, the conspiracy surrounding the death of John Wilkes Booth, and historian Thomas Lowry.]]></description>
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		<itunes:summary>Episode 2, Mr. Lincoln&#039;s Bloody Gloves: We talk with Dr. James Cornelius about our featured artifact of the month: Mr. Lincoln&#039;s Bloody Gloves. We also talk about events surrounding Mr. Lincoln&#039;s assassination, the conspiracy surrounding the death of John Wilkes Booth, and historian Thomas Lowry.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln’s Homage to “Labor”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wightman Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s battle to get the better of his state’s unionized public employees reminds us that a century and a half ago, on September 30, 1859, Abraham Lincoln appeared at the Wisconsin state fair in Milwaukee to deliver a well-wrought speech on the subject of “labor.”    He collected $100 for a witty and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lincoln “Apprentice”: Part 1</title>
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		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/03/the-lincoln-%e2%80%9capprentice%e2%80%9d-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ninian Edwards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Abraham and Mary Lincoln employed a number of hired servants over the almost two decades at their Springfield residence.  Among the many individuals who served them was a black house servant named Epsy Smith.  Her association with the Lincoln family undoubtedly accounts for this lengthy obituary that appeared in the (Springfield) Illinois State Journal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willie’s Chocolate Letter: Mystery Solved</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/03/willie%e2%80%99s-chocolate-letter-mystery-solved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/03/willie%e2%80%99s-chocolate-letter-mystery-solved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cornelius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History is not like wine or scotch; it does not get better as it gets older.  Much of the time it turns sour as the distance grows between the original event and our telling of it. Yet in some cases the original story was vanishingly told by one person to another, who never wrote it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up in Smoke, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/03/up-in-smoke-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/03/up-in-smoke-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Lincoln]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If Abraham and Mary Lincoln were largely responsible for destroying their own family papers before leaving for Washington, D.C., in 1861, then what did Robert T. Lincoln burn in later years?  Fortunately for historians he wrote down a listing of destroyed documents, in a volume sold as Burr’s Library Index.  His index was created to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories from the Vault Episode 1</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/02/stories-from-the-vault-episode-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/02/stories-from-the-vault-episode-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Russell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to &#8220;Stories from the Vault&#8221; the official podcast of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Each month we&#8217;ll be bringing you stories and insights about the artifacts, events, and life of our nation&#8217;s sixteenth President. Episode 1: We talk with our curator Dr. James Cornelius about our Featured Artifact of the Month for [...]]]></description>
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	<itunes:subtitle>Welcome to &quot;Stories from the Vault&quot; the official podcast of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Each month we&#039;ll be bringing you stories and insights about the artifacts, events, and life of our nation&#039;s sixteenth President. - </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Welcome to &quot;Stories from the Vault&quot; the official podcast of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Each month we&#039;ll be bringing you stories and insights about the artifacts, events, and life of our nation&#039;s sixteenth President.

	Episode 1: We talk with our curator Dr. James Cornelius about our Featured Artifact of the Month for March. We also find out the story behind the donation of a rare photo of Mr. Lincoln&#039;s son, Willie and we answer your questions submitted online. You may listen below or the episode is available for download here: Stories from the Vault Episode 1</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum</itunes:author>
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		<title>Two Sketches of the President-Elect:   One Pictorial and the Other Descriptive</title>
		<link>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/02/two-sketches-of-the-president-elect-one-pictorial-and-the-other-descriptive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alplm.org/blog/2011/02/two-sketches-of-the-president-elect-one-pictorial-and-the-other-descriptive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the lesser-known artists of Abraham Lincoln was Freeman Thorp.  Born in Geneva, Ohio, on June 16, 1844, Thorp developed an interest in art.  On February 15, 1861, he took some cardboard and pencils to sketch the train that carried president-elect Abraham Lincoln to Washington, D.C.  The ALPLM acquired the sketch in the 1950s. [...]]]></description>
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