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You get us, Queens podcast.

And here at Queens, we are spilling the tea on all kinds of women from history.

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fun, dramatic, and juicy stories of fascinating women from history. Listen wherever you get your

podcasts. Cheers! Welcome, everyone to another episode of the Most Notorious podcast. I'm Eric Rivenis.

I'm very pleased to introduce Saladin Amber to the show. He is a professor of political science

at Rutgers University and a senior scholar at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor.

He's also a scholar-advisor to the Lincoln Presidential Foundation in the Woodrow Wilson

Presidential Library and Museum.

And he is a award-winning author of multiple books.

His most recent outlast Fall is called

Murder on the Mississippi, The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln. Thank you so much

for coming on the podcast. Thanks, Eric. It's really a pleasure to be here. Thank you.

So your book is organized in a interesting way. You focus on

three murder cases and then tie them all together through a young Abraham Lincoln.

That's right. Yeah. These were a series of murders, roughly over a little over a thousand days in Lincoln's

life in his mid to late 20s where, you know, he's following politics, he's struggling with

his own personal issues, but he learns about these murders in sequence, you know, not all together far from Illinois

in the sense that Illinois is very much a Mississippi River state.

And, you know, he gets news accounts from these horrific acts of mob violence, the first being occurring in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and then one a little

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