The credit initially went to a man, but a woman named Marty Goddard came up with the idea of rape kits to help medical professionals gather vital evidence in sexual assault cases.
Denied a law license, Myra Bradwell took her fight to the U.S. Supreme Court ... and lost. But she helped change Illinois law to let women become attorneys.
After a son's death, Mary Lincoln's sister helped hold the first family together.
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After 160 years, could we figure out which members of the Electoral College cast these ballots for Abraham Lincoln?
People with money couldn't resist visiting Chicago to see the city -- and tens of thousands of lives -- in ruins after the great fire.
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After losing his Senate race, Abraham Lincoln pubished the record of his debates with Stephen Douglas, a strategy that helped him win the presidency.
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