"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 side of the Capitol. The cast-bronze statue of the former president is ...

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 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 ...

The 12-foot tall bronze statue received quite a few critiques, including some from the woman who says she's the face of it. Spend a little time in New York City’s Times Square and you never know ...

Explore the structure underneath the Statue of Liberty and the spiral stairs that lead to the top. #Animation #StatueOfLiberty #3DModeling #Blender Ketanji Brown Jackson uses Amy Coney Barrett's ...

The small moment that was routine practice for the 86-year-old was brought to an abrupt end when the statue memorializing his son was stolen last December. Mease has made it his life's mission ...

The people of France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the American people, not to the U.S. government or one government official. Congress formally accepted the gift and it’s now a publicly ...