Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt statues returning to downtown Portland, with new stories to tell

When the sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor’s monument of Roosevelt was unveiled in Portland in 1922, the then-recently ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation Offers a Hint on What the Supreme Court Will Do About Birthright Citizenship

1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." 1862: President ...