Appomattox: Where America's Civil War Neared Its End
Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company: 1st bank for freedmen in Shreveport after Civil War
A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...
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'The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana' to showcase history this weekend
The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...
Opinion - Don’t expect Hamas to surrender any time soon
Surrender is one of the most essential rules in international humanitarian law. Don't expect it any time soon in the Middle ...
Trump is starting a trade war. If he wants to absorb Canada, what comes next will be worse
The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the ...
The Westmoreland marks Black History Month with art-filled observance for all
It was celebration time Sunday for Laurie Johnson-Wade of New Kensington, who brought her seven grandchildren and two of her daughters to Greensburg for a lesson in Black history — the arts, singing, ...
The Origins Of Black History Month: Celebrations Continue Today
Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...
Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
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LSUS Spring Street Museum exhibit highlights one of the nation’s first Freedman’s Banks in Shreveport
Street Museum in downtown is housed in one of Shreveport’s oldest buildings that’s historically been associated with various ...
Abraham Lincoln visited Cincinnati in 1861. Here's what he had to say
Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.