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 ...

In his role as the 16th President of the United States, Lincoln’s arguably most important achievement came from the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation ... The Lincoln statue itself, however, ...

As the 16th president of the United States, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves legally free within the Confederacy in 1863. For years, the statue on Bascom has been ...