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  • Shocker: Presidential Collector Arrested for Stealing Lincoln Documents

    Barry H. Landau has rubbed elbows with presidents, helped plan inaugurations, and claims one of the largest collections of Oval Office memorabilia outside museums and presidential libraries. His Manhattan apartment includes a collection of china from Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration and a picture of Landau kissing John F. Kennedy’s dog Clipper. Police say he tried to […]

  • Tom Lowry Vs. the National Archives: An Emailgate Answer?

    First, a short primer.  Earlier this year, historian Tom Lowry was accused of altering a Lincoln pardon letter by the National Archives, who claimed Lowry grew “reticent” during what I assumed was a string of emails.  Lowry denied this accusation at a new blog, saying he had never been contacted about the pardon and had […]

  • The New York Times on Abraham Lincoln’s First Inauguration

    The New York Times March 5, 1861 WASHINGTON, Monday, March 4. The day to which all have looked with so much anxiety and interest has come and passed. ABRAHAM LINCOLN has been inaugurated, and “all’s well.” At daylight the clouds were dark and heavy with rain, threatening to dampen the enthusiasm of the occasion with […]

  • Lincoln Quote Genuine?

    Any Lincoln experts out there? I am looking to verify a quote attributed to him that’s been floating around the internet lately. The government, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary […]

  • Short Takes

    I’ve been extremely busy with several projects which hasn’t left much time to blog, even though I have a lot of material. Thanks to co-bloggers for keeping the flame burning here at TOCWOC. Talked to an FSU history professor at a party over the holidays, a woman of about thirty. What was most interesting was […]

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Hope everyone is having a fine day feasting with family and friends. Let’s take a moment to remember that it was  Abe Lincoln who proclaimed Thanksgiving to be a national holiday in 1863. The idea, however, came from a tireless agitator named Sarah Josepha Hale, whose other accomplishments included writing the children’s poem “Mary Had […]

  • The Real Abe Lincoln

    The secret’s out—Lincoln was actually a cyborg sent from the future to save the Union and find Sarah Connor’s great-grandmother. Will the next Terminator movie be set in the 1860s with Ah-nold as John Wilkes Booth? (via Gizmodo) Somehow I like this better than Lincoln the vampire slayer. Speaking of Abe’s contemporary appearances, he’s been […]