I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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What are you hiding? No one ever asks that... view

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Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional.. view

By: Sarah Vowell

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I hated the lost colony.. view

By: Sarah Vowell

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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life... view

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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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