The Civil War features into three new exhibits at the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research in Allen County Public Library. They will be on display through the year.
The Allen County Public Library’s Rolland Center for Lincoln Research opened Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day a new exhibit featuring Black historical icons.
The Rolland Center’s exhibit features fine art lithographs and photographs of Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass dating back to the mid-to-late 1800s. Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman” and Douglass’ memoirs are considered among the most influential writings leading up the abolition of slavery
President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a muscular defense of American interests in the Western Hemisphere, on this day in history, Dec. 2, 1823.