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Lincoln's Uncertain Commitment to Emancipation

Would President Lincoln sign the Emancipation Proclamation? Abolitionists were unsure.

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The Presidents: LBJ (Part 2)
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
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Part of the award-winning The Presidents collection.
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