“We need to have this conversation from a compassionate place,” said one woman during Friday’s demonstrations.

“It’s time to take down monuments that memorialize the intended subservience of black people in this country,” the petition says.

Enjoy comedy in the summer home of one of our funniest presidents.

The National Park Service will hold a commemoration of the event at the Lincoln Memorial plaza today.

Today is D.C. Emancipation Day, when the city celebrates the act that ended slavery within city limits in 1862.

Samuel J. Seymour, who was a five-year-old boy who was in the audience at Ford’s Theatre the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot, lived long enough to appear on a television game show in 1956.

History buffs and Civil War aficionados are in for a treat this weekend, with events marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in the entirety of the war between the states.

Owl City put Abraham Lincoln on the guest list for his show tonight at the 9:30 Club. There might be some logistical problems with that invite.

A number of events are taking place throughout the city to mark the 150th anniversary of D.C. Emancipation Day, including a parade, fireworks show and mobile scavenger hunt.

The Lincoln Cottage is a little out of the way and sparsely decorated, but it paints a more complex and complete picture of the 16th president than his more grandiose memorial on the National Mall.