In 2008 I wrote about the family history of President Abraham Lincoln. At that time, and really since the time of Lincoln himself, there was secrecy, mystery, and confusion surrounding the ...

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Mother’s Day wasn’t a thing until 1908, but if it had existed in Abraham Lincoln ... and that is by design. Lincoln himself was extremely cagey about family background; when a newspaper ...