PROFESSOR LINCOLN FOUGHT SLAVERY'S SPREAD TO LATIN AMERICA, NOT JUST WEST

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Purdue University issued the following news release:

The 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth is a time for people to learn more about America's 16th president, says a Purdue University Civil War historian.

"President Lincoln is on a lot of people's minds today, partly because of President-elect Barack Obama," says Robert May, a professor of history who teaches a class on Lincoln and the Civil War.

Obama has patterned his Cabinet choices on Lincoln's, quoted from Lincoln's speeches, and plans to take his oath of office with the same Bible Lincoln used. Both took office in ...

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