The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This map, made by the U.S. Coast ...
Near the end of 1861, with the American Union crumbling, President Abraham Lincoln became obsessed with an unusual document. Nearly three feet in length, it appeared at first to be a map of the ...
Photos courtesy of David Wiegers, Gurnee, Illinois. Wiegers has visited and photographed over 200 statues of Abraham Lincoln and has plans to publish his photographs in a book tentatively entitled “A ...
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