On Monday, the mayor of Baltimore agreed to take down its Civil War statues. By later Monday ... more malignant,” wrote Christine Emba in the Washington Post. “It’s privileged status ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s wax statue melted ... School in Northwest Washington. Crafted by Richmond artist Sandy Williams IV, the memorial aims to highlight the Civil War era and its aftermath.

A wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln sitting outside of a Washington D.C. elementary school ... a contraband camp during the Civil War that is now the site of an elementary school.

Critics of the statues have said they celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial figures, genocide against Indigenous populations.