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Abraham Lincoln’s wax head melts off in DC heat wave
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoSince 1922, a statue of Abraham Lincoln, carved from Georgia white marble, has resided in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, drawing millions of...
5 things to know for June 26: CNN Debate, Immigration, Kenya protests, Truck recalls, Evan...
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFifty years ago today, the first official barcode was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. The...
Today in History: June 30, Night of the Long Knives
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoOn June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as the “Night of the Long Knives.” In 1921, President Warren G.
Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIn the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s...
What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe image of a kneeling person in chains was first used in a seal commissioned by the Committee for...
A new book reveals an ‘overlooked’ chapter in Abraham Lincoln’s story
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn a Tuesday evening in the nation’s capital, a clock chimes loudly just as Harold Holzer is about...
Presidential greatness is rarely fixed in stone – changing attitudes on racial injustice and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, sits in the Lincoln Memorial...
'Scare Tactic Much?': Critics Pounce On Trump Over Bonkers Pennsylvania Claim
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDonald Trump warned National Rifle Association members Friday that Democrats would change the name...
3 sentences from Abraham Lincoln to explain the Civil War to 2024 GOP candidates
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOne hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the Union rather than...
A bronze top hat has disappeared from a larger-than-life sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFor more than a decade, a large bronze top hat has rested next to a stately statue of Abraham...