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(Abraham Lincoln) Sherwin & Cotton Tile, ...

Tough to Find, In a Phenomenal Frame!

Offering the hard-to-find Abraham Lincoln Sherwin & Cotton tile. This tile was created to commemorate ... Read More

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Peter W. Roper, Jedediah Hotchkiss, 1st ...

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George Tice, Lincoln, First Ed.

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Eric Michael Burke, Soldiers From Experience, ...

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Peter Cozzens, The Darkest Days of ...

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Flowers, Flank A. (F.A.F.). Old Abe, ...

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Lincoln Receives the Comanche Indians

Ferdinand Delannoy, Lincoln Receives the Comanche ...

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Henry Gugler, Abraham Lincoln Steel Engraved ...

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William Sartain, Abraham & Mary Lincoln, ...

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Charles Turzak, Abe Lincoln – Birth ...

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Gerald Ford, Baseball Signed

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David A. Powell

The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 3

Airdate: 10/29/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Walter Stahr

William Howard Taft: A Great American Life

Airdate: 11/12/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Gerald L. Maatman

Stonewall's Lieutenant

Airdate: 12/03/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Special Announcements

Alphonso Iannelli Abraham Lincoln Bust

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

UPDATE: The Iannelli Bust has been added to Google Maps! UPDATE: Our own Bjorn Skaptason visited the Iannelli bust in person. Watch him talk about it! UPDATE: The bust is completed and installed in Paris! Read about the unveiling ceremony. UPDATE:  Thanks to Judy Barclay and the Paris-Chicago Sister City Committee the Iannelli bust is being replicated. The replica travelling to Paris! We ... Read More

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Richard Robert Donnelley opened his Chicago printing company in 1864. In 1870, he changed the name to Lakeside Printing and Publishing Company. Rising from the ashes of the 1871 fire, by 1901 they moved into their own building. Located in today’s Printer’s Row neighborhood, the building is architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s very first design of a commercial building. The ... Read More