As a result, Washington bristles with fasces. The Lincoln Memorial alone is full of them, not just on Abraham Lincoln’s chair, but carved in multiple places on the monument’s walls and depicte ...

As ancient historian Liv Yarrow points out, the fasces on his chair have no axe, but those on the tripods leading up to the monument do have axes. The construction of the Lincoln Memorial in the ...

Seated proudly at the west end of Washington, D.C.’s National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial is one of the most beloved American monuments: It attracts millions of visitors each year. Here are a few ...

the fasces remained. Even as tens of thousands of Americans perished while fighting fascist troops in North Africa and Italy, the enemy’s emblem continued to be displayed at the Department of Justice, ...

Barely more than two miles away, the original Lincoln memorial stood lonely and ignored ... while the left hand rests on a fasces (a bundle of sticks bound with a ribbon of stars, a Roman symbol ...

The fasces can be seen in the chamber of the House of Representatives in the Capitol and is prominent in Abraham Lincoln's carving in the Lincoln Memorial. In Roman times, the fasces was the ...