The Lincoln section of the mountainside monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota is seen on a sunny day. Mount Rushmore signals his legacy—along with those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt—and will continue to forevermore. Photograph by Ed Nugent/FogStock/Aurora
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A Final Note: Says James M. Cornelius, of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield: “We have this little note. The original was tri-folded, as if for his hat-storage, and we own what is likely the same hat, too. The note appears in no known letter or speech and is presumed to date from the debates season of 1858 against Douglas, though possibly it is from earlier. It is generally referred to as the Definition of Democracy note.” Photograph from Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum