HAVE WE ALL BEEN SLEEPING on Carrie Mae Weems? The question might sound counterintuitive, considering the esteem with which the artist has been held since her emergence in the 1980s if not altogether off the mark, given the successes she has enjoyed in the past year. Highlights include a MacArthur “genius” award, a magisterial display of her “Museum” series at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the star-studded “Past Tense/Future Perfect” conference organized around her work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the last stop of “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,”
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield will mark the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield will mark the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, Juneteenth, by.
Lincoln museum to show rare Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but the word of the long-awaited news did not reach enslaved peoples in multiple parts of the country until much later.
Juneteenth, the
Emancipation Proclamation.
While the original Emancipation Proclamation document remains in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., the copy set to be displayed in Illinois has the signatures of
President Abraham Lincoln and former Secretary of State
William Seward. According to the
Associated Press, museum-goers will be able to view the copy from June 15 to July 16.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863; however, word of the long-awaited news did not reach enslaved peoples in some parts of the country until much later.