Join us on a historic tour of Fort Sumter, the site where the American Civil War began. During our visit with the National Park Service, we discovered an artillery projectile still lodged in the brick ...

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But it was largely ignored since it couldn't be enforced unless the United States won the Civil War, according to the National Museum ... Finally, on June 19, 1865, more than two months after Gen.

Juneteenth marks the day, June 19, 1865, when the last enslaved Black people in the United States were finally told — 2½ years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and ...

Noah Davis was a painter's painter, a deeply thoughtful Black voice heard by other artists until he died at 32. A new L.A. show reveals just how good he was.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located on the Fort Detrick-Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, easily ...

The Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area, just a mile from downtown, offers hiking trails that lead to the highest point ...

Koster is a resident of Grand Rapids but his historical research so far has focused on Missaukee County, where his parents ...

Object Details Author Wertz, Jay Notes Includes index. Audio CD features readings of contemporary letters, diaries and documents. Book contains removable documents and memorabilia. Date 2005 C2005 ...

David Williams, . . New Press, $29.95 (594pp) ISBN 978-1-59558-018-4 This hefty but readable social history by a confessed disciple of Howard Zinn reframes the Civil War as a conflict not simply ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Moments of hard-fought progress are inevitably followed by backlash and regression. Our Civil War stamped out slavery at the cost of at least 650,000 lives and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.