Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

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The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers including the Air and Space Museum and the National ...

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