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Lincoln papers project gets grant for tracking software

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FILE - This June 14, 2007, file photo, shows Abraham Lincoln's iconic stovepipe hat at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. Media personality and political commentator Glenn Beck is pitching in to keep a trove of artifacts related to Lincoln in the 16th president's hometown. Beck's charity called Mercury One has donated $50,000 toward a $9.2 million debt owed for a collection of 1,400 artifacts purchased a decade ago for the museum. It includes valuable personal effects of Lincoln's and the stovepipe hat whose link to Lincoln has been questioned. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Glenn Beck gives $50K to Lincoln artifacts debt

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Naperville’s ‘Laughing Lincoln’ statue to be unveiled Dec. 2

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Alan Lowe, director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, answers questions during a House tourism committee hearing Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Springfield, Ill., over the value of a Lincoln collection purchased by the ALPLM foundation and the loan to pay for it after questions have been raised about the historical authenticity of a stovepipe hat believed to have been owned by Abraham Lincoln. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)

Lincoln museum backers seek money to keep Illinois artifacts

By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 14, 2007 file photo, Abraham Lincoln's iconic stovepipe hat is photographed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. There's more to a $25 million collection of artifacts related to Abraham Lincoln than a stovepipe hat of questioned authenticity, advocates told a House committee Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in a plea for state money to slice the remaining debt and keep the throng of relics in the 16th president's hometown. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)

The Latest: Rauner wants figures on Lincoln-artifact debt

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Lincoln Museum displays powder horn Lincoln once carried

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VA asked to change Lincoln quote to include women

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2016 file photo, Alan Lowe director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum visits with employees on his first day on the job in Springfield, Ill. Hard feelings over attempts to verify an iconic stovepipe hat's connection to Abraham Lincoln has prompted Lowe to severe financial ties to the organization's fundraising arm at a critical juncture for the nonprofit foundation, which struggling to pay back millions of dollars borrowed to buy the hat and other artifacts related to the 16th president. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)

Lincoln museum head cuts foundation tie over stovepipe hat

By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press

Scholar’s Abe Lincoln collection fetches $300K at auction

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This photo shows a set of small binoculars believed to have been carried by President Abraham Lincoln on the night he was assassinated at Ford's Theatre, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in New Orleans. The opera glasses are said to have fallen from the mortally wounded Lincoln’s body as he was carried from Ford’s Theatre in 1865. A captain with the Washington City Guard picked them up from the street. They were handed down in his family for generations before being matched in 1968 to a case found in the balcony after Lincoln was shot. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)

New Orleans gallery acquires Lincoln opera glasses

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

Illustration on the history of Liberia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

How Abraham Lincoln struggled to return the slaves to Africa

By Craig Shirley and Andrew Shirley

Milwaukee GOP group removes tweet mocking Justice Ginsburg

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a &quot;fireside chat&quot; in the Bruce M. Selya Appellate Courtroom at the Roger William University Law School Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, in Bristol, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) ** FILE **

Milwaukee County GOP deletes Ruth Bader Ginsburg tweet: ‘Abraham Lincoln grabbed my ass in 1862’

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Failed efforts to authenticate Lincoln stovepipe were secret

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This Nov. 18, 2017 photo shows the &quot;symbolic cabin&quot; housed in the Memorial Building at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park near Hodgenville, Ky. (Christopher Sullivan via AP)

Reality bites on a trip to find Lincoln’s humble log cabin

By CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 14, 2007 file photo, FILE - In this June 14, 2007 file photo, Abraham Lincoln's bloodstained gloves he carried on the night of his death are photographed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. The hunt for auctioneers to sell off valuable Lincoln artifacts to pay a $9.7 million debt began Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018 but the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation cautioned a sale isn't imminent. The foundation voted in a private meeting to begin seeking an auction house to dispose parts of the Taper collection of 1,400 items related to Lincoln. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)

The Latest: State rep says Lincoln auction prep ‘bad sign’

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In this June 1, 2018 photo, Hildene, the summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, is visible from the formal garden of the estate in Manchester, Vt. In its 40th year as a private museum Hildene, is working to preserve Lincoln history while attempting to modernize the experience for visitors and students. (AP Photo/David Jordan)

Life of Abe Lincoln’s son on display at Hildene in Vermont

By DAVID JORDAN - Associated Press

FILE - This June 14, 2007 file photo shows, Abraham Lincoln's iconic stovepipe hat at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. The crowdsourcing site where people seek contributions for school books or medical bills has a new campaign: $9.7 million to keep artifacts belonging to Lincoln in his hometown. The Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation has turned to GoFundMe to pay a loan from 2007 that covered a trove of artifacts belonging to the 16th president. They include bloodied gloves Lincoln took to the theater the night he was shot and the stovepipe hat he purportedly wore. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)

GoFundMe makes saving Lincoln artifacts hip, accessible

By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press

An 1887 cookbook lists an extravagant menu — from oysters to a namesake pie — to celebrate George Washington’s birthday. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Miguel Santiago, California Dem, face-slaps Washington, Lincoln for communist day

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Indiana couple donates documents to Abraham Lincoln library

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