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 ...
Barbara Pope Was a Civil Rights Activist Who Refused to Give Up Her Seat on a Segregated Train
Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.
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 ...
On This Day: Manchester United players among 23 dead in Munich plane crash
On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...
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 ...
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 ...
MORE TO THE STORY: A Civil War hero in Stewart
Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...