A curious thing has been happening on Google Maps — the Lincoln Memorial is being misplaced in favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, which is a good half a mile south of the more famous ...

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 ...

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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 ...