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	<title>Freedom Blog &#187; Abraham Lincoln</title>
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		<title>Lincoln Issues General War Order No. 1</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/lincoln-issues-general-war-order-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Isett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Lincoln was getting irritated. The war had been declared, and yet Federal forces showed little enthusiasm for joining battle with the Confederates. A few bloody noses, though painful, were no excuse, in his mind, to let up on the pressure. On January 27th, 1862, Lincoln had finally had enough reluctance from his commanders, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with David Blight (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/interview-david-blight-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/interview-david-blight-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author David Blight will lecture at the Freedom Center on December 8 at 6:30 pm on two of his books, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War. Blight is a professor of American History at Yale University, is Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Blight to Lecture on the Civil War Legacy December 8</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/dr-david-blight-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/dr-david-blight-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author David Blight will lecture at the Freedom Center on December 8 at 6:30 pm on two of his books, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War. Blight is a professor of American History at Yale University, is Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/abraham-lincoln-delivers-gettysburg-address/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/abraham-lincoln-delivers-gettysburg-address/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Isett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 19th of November, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his most important speech ever. The President’s Gettysburg Address is 272 words long, an extremely short speech, especially then, when speeches would sometimes last two hours or more. In less than a page worth of text in Microsoft Word, Lincoln articulated the reason for the Civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McClellan Fired!</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/mcclellan-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Isett</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[General George B. MClellan, known as “Little Napoleon” due to his flamboyant personal style, likely wished that his field commanding skills were equal to those of his namesake when, on the 5th of November, 1862, he was relieved of command of the Union army by Abraham Lincoln, his Commander-In-Chief. The General had been in command [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Civil War and the Era of Big Government</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/civil-war-era-big-government/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/civil-war-era-big-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is an issue that seems to permeate many a discussion about the operation of the Federal government and its impact on the lives of the individual citizens of this nation. Some citizens, such as those affiliated with the Tea Party, shout it from the roof tops. Others imply their disaffection through their anger at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln &amp; Ulysses S. Grant: Forging a Partnership in Battle</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/abraham-lincoln-ulysses-grant-forging-partnership-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/abraham-lincoln-ulysses-grant-forging-partnership-battle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us for a special afternoon with Frank Williams, the former Chief Justice of the State of Rhode Island and Lincoln scholar, on Saturday October 15th at 1:00 pm. His lecture, &#8220;Abraham Lincoln &#38; Ulysses S. Grant: Forging a Partnership in Battle,&#8221; will focus on the fact that neither President Lincoln nor General Grant was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Miss &#8220;Abolishing Slavery in Lincoln&#8217;s Time &amp; Ours&#8221; Lecture</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/dont-abolishing-slavery-lincolns-time-lecture/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/dont-abolishing-slavery-lincolns-time-lecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today there are nearly three times as many enslaved people in the world today than there were in the Western Hemisphere when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an estimated 30 million.  Today, at the same time, the United States incarcerates far more people than any other nation, the vast majority of whom are people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Emancipation Milestone</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/emancipation-milestone/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/emancipation-milestone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was on this date 149 years ago that the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was released to the public. This document differed from the final version that Americans have come to both celebrate and revile for their own various reasons, but it was indeed issued as a clear warning to the Confederacy that action was going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overlooking the Importance of Empowerment</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/overlooking-importance-empowerment/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/overlooking-importance-empowerment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We do not affirm that the North is fighting in behalf of the black man’s rights, as such—if this was the single issue, we even doubt whether they would fight at all. But circumstances have been so arranged by the decrees of Providence, that in struggling for their own nationality they are forced to defend [...]]]></description>
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