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Power to the People: Washington Gives Back

August 9, 2016 Circulating Now

By Jennifer Brier, Anne Armstrong, Julie Kutruff, Erin Carlson Mast, Patricia Tuohy Creative individuals and institutions in Washington DC have moved beyond what often comes

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The Lincoln Autopsy

April 16, 2015 Circulating Now

By Jill L. Newmark and Roxanne Beatty This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150

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AN engraving of a wallpapered room in which people stand and sit around the bed where the President lays.

Lincoln’s Last Hours

April 15, 2015 Circulating Now

By Jill L. Newmark This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150 years ago on

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President Lincoln lying in bed at the Petersen house surrounded by physicians.

A Day that Changed American History

April 14, 2015

By Roxanne Beatty and Jill L. Newmark This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150

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Dr. Samuel Mudd, Prisoner and Physician

April 14, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Robert Summers who has been researching, writing, and lecturing on his ancestor Dr. Samuel A. Mudd’s role in the Lincoln

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A Discourse, Delivered on the 26th of November, 1795.

Giving Thanks

November 26, 2013 circulating now

In this thanksgiving discourse from 1795, when our nation was still very young, the speaker renders thanks for peace and for fruitful seasons and ends with special gratitude for the swift end of an epidemic fever.

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