Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
On This Day: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War
On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe ...
What Black history in pre-Civil War Cincinnati looked like, per a celebrated scholar
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...
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Kirstin Dunst's Civil War was the film that Kate Winslet's Lee should have been!
I thought I was going to watch an "Action fulled adventure" with Civil War, but instead I got a movie about war photographers ...
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Gilbert’s star-spangled adventure | J. Mark Powell
Gilbert Bates was getting madder by the minute. The 31-year-old farmer was chewing the fat with a neighbor in November 1867. The man was a Radical Republican (like being a “woke” progressive today), ...
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LCCC to host traveling exhibition on “African Americans in Civil War Medicine”
African Americans in Civil War Medicine” traveling exhibition will be held at the Luzerne County Community College Library ...
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The American City So Charming, You’d Swear It Was Plucked Straight From Europe
What comes to mind when you think of the city of Savannah? Is it the beautifully laid out squares that dot the city? Or ...
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The United States Has Always Been a Divided Nation
Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.
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The Other Side of Sherman’s March
The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...