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Knox County academic aided Abe Lincoln in duel, was fixture in Confederate cabinet during Civil War

MOUNT VERNON — It’s interesting to see how the prevailing philosophies of institutions take shape. Knox County’s Kenyon College became a notable outpost for anti-slavery progressive movements in the years leading up to the Civil War. But it wasn’t always that way. It turns out that one of the major architects of the Southern mythology […]

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