"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

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Washington, DC, befitting of the nation's capital, is full of historical sites bearing a dark past, including this captivating federal-style mansion.

A statue of Frederick Douglass, orator, writer, abolitionist, and advocate for equality of all people, will move from the atrium of a government office building to Capitol Hill’s Emancipation ...

Officials are asking Nebraskans to donate a popular, discontinued wax to protect the statue of Abraham Lincoln on the west ...

VIDEO - On Saturday, 'Melissa Harris Perry' revisited the Emancipation Proclamation and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for President Lincoln, and for the enslaved people impacted -- or ...

A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown. The life ...

A bronze statue of Melania Trump near her hometown in Slovenia has gone missing, five years after it replaced a wooden statue damaged by arsonists. Slovenian police told CNN that they’d been ...