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Review: 'Emancipation,' with Will Smith, struggles to do its real-life survival story justice

In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days in alligator-infested marshes and found his way to Baton Rouge, where he received medical attention and soon enlisted…

Los Angeles Times

Who's giving Americans spiritual care? As congregational attendance shrinks, it's often chaplains

When Americans picture a chaplain, many of them likely think of someone like Father Mulcahy, the Irish American priest who cared for Korean War soldiers in the classic TV show “M.A.S.H.”

The Conversation

Yes, they can? Springfield pays long-awaited tribute to Obama’s historic White House launch: ‘History doesn’t always move quickly’

The new historic marker stands outside the Old State Capitol, where then Sen. Barack Obama launched his presidential bid on a brutally cold February day in 2007 —but unlike Obama, Pritzker and the others who unveiled the marker on Wednesday made their remarks indoors.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Abraham Lincoln statue vandalised for a second time in Chicago

The statue in Edgewater’s Senn Park has been graffitied with the words ‘coloniser’ and ‘land back’

The Independent UK

A House renovated: Automated flagpole to sit atop Springfield site where Lincoln delivered historic anti-slavery speech

A helicopter removed the old manual flagpole from the dome of the Old State Capitol this week in preparation for installing an automated one as part of an ongoing renovation project. Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama both made history at the historic building.

Chicago Sun-Times

For playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, theater doesn't just reflect reality – it creates it

With a revival of her Pulitzer-winning play Topdog/Underdog on Broadway, and her new show about COVID off-Broadway, the acclaimed playwright is still learning new things about herself.

WEKU

Lincoln made a Thanksgiving plea for peace. Let’s now envision a world without war or hunger.

On Thanksgiving, as you enjoy time with family and great food, be an advocate for peace and unity for all.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Top 10 books about tycoons

From rapacious businessmen to political power brokers, this literature extends from biographies of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Tiny Rowland to novels by Scott Fitzgerald and Preti Taneja

The Guardian - UK

Native Americans push Thankstaking to reshape a U.S. myth

Thankstaking, the Native American-influenced alternative to Thanksgiving, is growing.

Axios

How medieval Catholic traditions of thanksgiving prayers and feasting shaped the Protestant celebration of Plymouth's pilgrims

President Abraham Lincoln instituted the celebration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863 after the Union victory at the battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War. It was not a new idea – in 1789, President George Washington had proposed a yearly presidential proclamation of each annual Thanksgiving…

The Conversation

Pulse of the Heartland: Freeport voters fear scary times ahead — but split on whether Trump or Biden is the boogeyman

The Sun-Times spoke with Freeport residents to gauge what’s on their minds days before Tuesday’s election, and their responses were fittingly diverse for a blue-leaning city in a blood-red county. Patty Tricker worries that Democrats are “all too happy to let criminals roam free.” But Gary…

Chicago Sun-Times

Valuable Lincoln artifacts are taken from a Springfield museum as feuding with a not-for-profit intensifies

The fate of 1,500-plus artifacts, including some tied to Lincoln’s murder, is unclear as a foundation pulls items out of a state Lincoln museum.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bono woke up in White House bedroom after boozing with former President Barack Obama

The 62-year-old admitted he shared several "strong cocktails" with Barack, 61, during the American's tenure as the 44th president of the United States

Irish Mirror

Bono 'passed out' in Lincoln room after drinks with then-President Obama at White House

The Dubliner said he had a few "strong cocktails" and red wine with the former US president

Dublin Live

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Daily Mirror

7 key revelations from Parkland shooting trial from chilling letters to Nazi fascination

Nikolas Cruz was 19 at the time of the deadly Stoneman Douglas High School shooting when authorities missed several opportunities to deal with the deeply troubled gunman's behaviour in Parkland, Florida, US

Daily Mirror

Bono reveals he woke up in Abraham Lincoln's bedroom after boozy bash with Barack Obama

U2 frontman Bono has opened up on the time he fell asleep at the White House after having a few "strong cocktails" and red wine with the then-president, Barack Obama

Chicago Sun-Times

Abraham Lincoln is a role model for today’s turbulent times

When Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham writes about someone as complex as Lincoln, and a time more divisive than today, there are important lessons to learn.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Betsy Ross was buried three times. She’s not the only American with multiple graves

PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 16, a group of women with ancestral ties to colonial America placed a marker in a Southwest Philadelphia cemetery at the second of Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole’s three graves.

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Al Jazeera

Are Putin’s views fascist?

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.

Chicago Tribune

Review: Brothers bite hard in powerhouse ‘Topdog/Underdog’ on Broadway

NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” is a phenomenal two-brother drama, every bit as intense and rich as anything by Sam Shepard and, frankly, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century. And on Broadway, the director Kenny Leon has put this 2001 masterpiece…

Salon

The South won the psychological war

Propaganda and psychological warfare helped perpetuate false narratives about the Confederacy that still persist

Reason

When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism

In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

The Guardian - US

‘A nutso proposition’: Robert Draper on Trump, Republicans and January 6

The New York Times reporter’s new book considers the Capitol attack and after: the fall of Liz Cheney, the rise of MTG and more

The Guardian - US

Topdog/Underdog review – Corey Hawkins triumphs in Suzan Lori-Parks revival

The actor makes a searing impact alongside an excellent Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the surreal Pulitzer prize-winning play about two brothers struggling to get by in America

Chicago Sun-Times

Pulse of the Heartland: Peoria yearning for the middle in a nation of angry extremes: ‘It just makes your heart sink’

Some Peoria residents say it feels like politicians are less and less interested in finding the center their city has long represented — and instead are more focused on playing to extremes. “It seems like there is no middle ground out there anymore,” one resident said.

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