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Abraham Lincoln is a role model for today’s turbulent times

When Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham writes about someone as complex as Lincoln, and a time more divisive than today, there are important lessons to learn.

Chicago Sun-Times

Betsy Ross was buried three times. She’s not the only American with multiple graves

PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 16, a group of women with ancestral ties to colonial America placed a marker in a Southwest Philadelphia cemetery at the second of Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole’s three graves.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Putin’s views fascist?

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.

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Review: Brothers bite hard in powerhouse ‘Topdog/Underdog’ on Broadway

NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” is a phenomenal two-brother drama, every bit as intense and rich as anything by Sam Shepard and, frankly, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century. And on Broadway, the director Kenny Leon has put this 2001 masterpiece…

Chicago Tribune

The South won the psychological war

Propaganda and psychological warfare helped perpetuate false narratives about the Confederacy that still persist

Salon

When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism

In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

Reason

‘A nutso proposition’: Robert Draper on Trump, Republicans and January 6

The New York Times reporter’s new book considers the Capitol attack and after: the fall of Liz Cheney, the rise of MTG and more

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Topdog/Underdog review – Corey Hawkins triumphs in Suzan Lori-Parks revival

The actor makes a searing impact alongside an excellent Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the surreal Pulitzer prize-winning play about two brothers struggling to get by in America

The Guardian - US

Pulse of the Heartland: Peoria yearning for the middle in a nation of angry extremes: ‘It just makes your heart sink’

Some Peoria residents say it feels like politicians are less and less interested in finding the center their city has long represented — and instead are more focused on playing to extremes. “It seems like there is no middle ground out there anymore,” one resident said.

Chicago Sun-Times

George Saunders: ‘This capitalism thing has got limits’

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

The Independent UK

Tell the full story about Abe Lincoln and the execution of 38 Dakota men

The military commission in charge of the matter, looking to crush the Sioux, sentenced 303 men to death. Lincoln spared 265 of them.

Chicago Sun-Times

Carhartt hoodies, MAGA hats and cowboy boots: What candidate fashion can tell us about the 2022 election

What can 2022 midterm candidates’ fashion can tell us about race, gender and the future of the parties in US politics? Josh Marcus investigates

The Independent UK

Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park vandalized

Anonymous group seeking to draw attention to Indigenous Peoples’ Day claims credit for pouring paint on the ‘Standing Lincoln,’ calling the 16th president ‘a colonizer.’

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump claims he would beat a Washington-Lincoln ticket by 40 points

One-time president says the ‘numbers were numbers that nobody could even believe’

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Salon

I voted for Trump — twice. I was wrong

I was all-in on Donald Trump's lies, well after Jan. 6. What opened my eyes? Gather round and I'll tell you

Reason

How the U.S. Paid for the Civil War

Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences.

The Guardian - UK

‘I want my work to be invisible’: Hollywood’s prosthetics maestros share their secrets

How makeup masters lay the foundation for award-worthy performances, from transforming Bradley Cooper into Bernstein to helping Brendan Fraser play a very obese man in The Whale

The Independent UK

Nikolas Cruz asked if people ‘ate’ corpses and what Lincoln killing ‘sounded like’ in school Civil War lesson

‘Was there blood everywhere? After the war, what did they do with all of the bodies? Did people eat them?’ Cruz reportedly asked in an eighth grade class

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The National Park Service just turned 106. Here are Kentucky sites where you can celebrate

LEXINGTON, Ky. — This month marks the 106th birthday of the National Park Service, and it’s inviting park visitors across the country to join in the celebration by submitting their favorite photos, videos and other creations capturing America’s wonderful wilderness.

Salon

Abe Lincoln: Master inventor

Lincoln's patent for "buoying vessels over shoals" speaks to a lesser-known aspect of The Great Emancipator's life

Chicago Sun-Times

The union started ‘parting bonds’ before Lincoln was elected

But the former president momentously transcended the nation’s embittered sectional breach during the duration of the protracted hostilities.

The Independent UK

Fall books a broad mix of literary and commercial favorites

Anticipation has been growing all year for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers, Colleen Hoover's “It Starts With Us.”

The Guardian - US

Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can’t photograph Black women

Leibovitz’s photographs are what happens when Blackness is seen through a white gaze incapable of capturing its true beauty

Tribune News Service

Jay Ambrose: Can Liz Cheney still win in the long run?

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., will wear that “representative” identification just a tad longer, seeing as how she was stomped to smithereens in a recent bid for reelection. The defeat, however, did not leave her without grand plans for reconstructing her status and American politics.

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Russia-Ukraine: five lessons from the 19th-century Crimean war

A century and a half ago, Russia lost a war it might have expected to win. The consequences reached far and wide

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