How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die
Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
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American Civil War: Maps, Battlefields, and Generals
The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.
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Review: In ‘Lincoln’s Peace,’ Michael Vorenberg searches for an end date of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...
Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...
Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...
Defense Department wipes ‘Glory’ Civil War hero from website
The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...