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From The Vault: Lincoln Hiding In Plain Sight

PORTRAITS by Deborah Sisum

Jun 20, 202424:37Arts

A globe turned to Haiti. A glove on the ground. This life-size portrait of President Abraham Lincoln contains intriguing details that can be read as a freeze-frame of race relations at the time of his assassination. The...

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