Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860 ... and their practice of politics. What Frederick Douglass called “the age of pictures” began in 1839, when the Frenchman Louis Daguerre’s ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

The recently published Abraham Lincoln: His 1858 Time Capsule edited ... kept news clippings of his debates with abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Heller’s book also contains reproductions ...

After just cutting more than 1,000 grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities is recruiting artists to create 250 ...

American citizens are turning out in huge numbers to protest the assault on bedrock rights enshrined in the Constitution, the ...

Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass ... and Stradivarius violin — Morris once took Abraham Lincoln’s ivory-handled walking stick, gifted to ...

Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled ...

The president is likely to tap into his worst instincts when deciding whom to, quite literally, put on a prominent pedestal.

These are the cultural practices and products that set us apart from other primates. And the president wants to control them.