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Trump Is Literally Frying a Rare Copy of the Emancipation Proclamation

By Robert McCoy Jul 15, 2026, 4:18 pm114 pts
Bedrock civil rights milestones are at risk of withering away under the Trump administration—including in the physical sense. Hot conditions in a new National Park Service exhibit under the Lincoln Memorial are imperiling rare 1860s copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment,…

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