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Abraham Lincoln's debates with Stephen A. Douglas turned the backwoods rail-splitter into presidential timber
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Washington's Boyhood Home
Archaeologists have finally pinpointed the Virginia house where our first president came of age
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Negotiations
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in pre-debate negotiations in 1858.
Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds
In defense of murderers Leopold and Loeb, attorney Clarence Darrow thwarted a nation's call for vengeance
Raiders or Traders?
A replica Viking vessel plying the North Sea this month is part of an effort to learn more about what the Norsemen were really up to
The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
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