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12 hrs ago | KNBC-TV

Let's Be Honest, Only Abe Has the Answer

If Abe Lincoln were alive today, he'd be the world's oldest man at 200. But more importantly, he'd also be able to settle a question regarding Disneyland's Great Moments with Mr.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Royal Dano, Sam Waterston

Fri Dec 18, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Voice of Disneyland's Lincoln takes criticism

It looks like Abraham Lincoln. It moves like Abraham Lincoln. And it quotes Abraham Lincoln.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Walt Disney, Royal Dano

Sun Dec 06, 2009

The Boston Globe

Critic's picks - theater

Three old World War I soldiers in a nursing home in 1959 wage a battle against authority and mortality in this small comic gem by French playwright Gerald Sibleyras, translated by none other than Tom Stoppard.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Three, Drama Movies, Boston Metro, Documentary Movies, Biography Movies

Fri Nov 27, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Exhibit explores Lincoln's love-hate relationship with N.Y.

NEW YORK - When he came to New York in February 1860 to address the Cooper Union, Abraham Lincoln got a first look at the powerful people in this city who played on the national political stage.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Thanksgiving: We owe thanks to Lincoln

Thank Abraham Lincoln for Thanksgiving. The Kentucky-born president did not think up the idea of a national day to consider our blessings.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Hodgenville, KY

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Courier News

Charitable Foundation Helps Bring Lincoln Exhibit to Scotch Plains Library

The Investors Savings Bank Foundation, which provides charitable grants to programs that enhance the neighborhoods the bank serves, has awarded $5,000 in support of the Scotch Plains Public Library's scheduled Abraham Lincoln exhibit.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Scotch Plains, NJ, Rutgers University

CNN

Lincoln letter to schoolboy sells for $60,000

Less than a month before the Civil War's start, a newly inaugurated President Lincoln took time from his frantic schedule to write to an Illinois boy whose classmates didn't believe he'd met the president.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Springfield, IL, Springfield Metro

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Our Town NY

Honest Abe in the Big Apple

Two years ago, noted historian and author Harold Holzer was asked to create a a oewish lista of artifacts for an upcoming Lincoln bicentennial exhibition at the New-York Historical Society.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

Independent Weekly

It's time to reread Gore Vidal's enduring Lincoln

Gore Vidal, a self-described narrator of empire, seems to enjoy nothing more than puncturing sacrosanct American icons.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

The University of North Carolina Press

Lincolna s Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president .

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

Albany Times Union

Gates and Holzer to discuss Lincoln and race at The Egg

Issues of race are never as clear as black and white, even when you're talking about Abraham Lincoln, the "Great Emancipator," whose attitude toward African-Americans ranged across several shades of gray.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

The Stranger

Young, Dumb, and Full of Glum

ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS The Rockwell portrait, from back when Lincoln was butch.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

KSL-TV Salt Lake City

Tycoon tales and Darwin get award nominations

The subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.

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Related Topix: The Fiction, Alternative, Wayne State University, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Nonfiction, Arts

Sun Oct 11, 2009

New York Times

When Honest Abe Met This Querulous Metropolis

When Abraham Lincoln visited New York in February 1861, Walt Whitman noticed that an "ominous silence" greeted the president-elect as he arrived at the Astor House hotel.

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Fri Oct 09, 2009

NBC New York

Lincoln and New York: A Brief History

We New Yorkers take great pride in our history. But our record on Abraham Lincoln is mixed.

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Thu Oct 08, 2009

DVD Times

The Tall Target

While usually steeped in the anxiety which met and followed World War II, film noir can, on rare occasions, take place prior to the 20th century.

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Tue Oct 06, 2009

News Max

Gore Vidal Predicts Military Dictatorship

Author and liberal political pundit Gore Vidal contends that the United States is headed for a "military dictatorship" because "nobody else can hold everything together." In a wide-ranging interview with the Times of London, the 83-year-old writer also commented on President Obama, George W. Bush, John McCain, and even Oklahoma City bomber Timothy ...

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Sun Oct 04, 2009

Indiana Law Blog

Ind. Gov't. - Harold Holzer and the closed Lincoln Museum

The ILB has a number of entries on the closing of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne and the eventual decision to split the collection between the Fort Wayne library and the State Museum in Indianapolis.

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Seattle Times

The many faces of Lincoln in the arts

Intiman's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" features Mary Jane Gibson as Mary Todd Lincoln, Erik Lochtefeld as Lincoln and R. Hamilton Wright as Stephen A. Douglas.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Greenwood (Seattle, WA), Queen Anne (Seattle, WA), Wallingford (Seattle, WA), Capitol Hill (Seattle, WA)

Sat Oct 03, 2009

The Corner

Still the Charmer -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Gore Vidal, what's not like to like ? Except for maybe everything: Vidal originally became pro-Obama because he grew up in "a black city" , as well as being impressed by Obama's intelligence.

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