Columnist Charita Goshay writes that a new statue of Abraham Lincoln in Salem reminds us of the promise and power of the American presidency.

Boston city workers on Tuesday removed a controversial statue of former President Abraham Lincoln standing before a kneeling freed slave which has stood downtown for more than 140 years.

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing ... In June 2020, however, the city decided to remove the statue, as its meaning had become controversial.

Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt with new interpretative and educational elements,” Jamieson said. The Harvey Scott statue, which was torn from its Mt. Tabor pedestal by protesters in ...

Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white-supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying ... He told one of President Abraham Lincoln’s advisers: “I look ...

(This column has been updated to correct the year of Abraham Lincoln's death.) Late last year, residents of Salem, Ohio, unveiled a new statue of Abraham Lincoln as part of a memorial plaza ...