Editor: Every so often someone writes this paper proclaiming how Republicans have always championed civil rights and true equality while the mean old Democrats have been against minorities from the ...

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Thomas Jefferson listened in anguish as the other members of the Continental Congress edited his draft of the Declaration of ...

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On Thursday, Samuel H. Bogenrief, a farrier with the 17th Illinois Calvary during the Civil War, received a proper farewell.