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What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its history − an art historian explains
The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position. The face in the ...
Presidential greatness is rarely fixed in stone – changing attitudes on racial injustice and leadership qualities lead to dramatic shifts
While some Republicans want to put Donald Trump onto Mt. Rushmore, historians often change their views of presidents over ...
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Boston City Workers Remove Controversial Statue of Abraham Lincoln
The commission also will determine where to reinstall the statue in a publicly accessible location along with information contextualizing its history. Boston city workers on Tuesday removed a ...
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Emancipation Proclamation
The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...
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The second inaugural we need was delivered 160 years ago
National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...
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Permission given for statue of famous Lincoln dog
Market trader Henry Tyler raised money in the 1950s by charging people a penny to stroke Snips Planning permission has been granted for a statue of a Lincoln dog called Snips who helped raise ...