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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL: In this image from the U.S. Library of Congress, the rocking chair used by of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater is seen April ,1865 in Washington, DC. (Photo by U.S. Library of Congress via Getty Images)

Shocker: There’s a Confederate Flag Sewn Into Lincoln’s Chair at Ford’s Theatre

Ford’s Theatre – a popular and compelling tourist attraction run by the National Park Service – is not aware of the legend of the Confederate flag in Lincoln’s chair.
By Joe Lapointe
The Confederate flag is seen next to the monument of the victims of the Civil War in Columbia, South Carolina on June 20, 2015. The racially divisive Confederate battle flag flew at full-mast despite others flying at half-staff in South Carolina after the killing of nine black people in an historic African-American church in Charleston on June 17. Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white male suspected of carrying out the Emanuel African Episcopal Methodist Church bloodbath, was one of many southern Americans who identified with the 13-star saltire in red, white and blue. AFP PHOTO/MLADEN ANTONOV (Photo credit should read MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Let the Confederacy Finally Die

It’s about time we recognized this for what it truly is: an abrogation of America’s most cherished values and a national contradiction.
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Jasper Johns, Flag, 1983. (Courtesy Sotheby's)

Sotheby’s to Sell $20M Jasper Johns ‘Flag’ at Fall Contemporary Art Auction

Sotheby’s has announced that is will be selling Jasper Johns’s Flag (1983) during the November 11 Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York. The late example of Flag, an encaustic on silk flag on canvas piece, is estimated to sell between $15 million and $20 million.
By Alanna Martinez

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