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On Juneteenth, Monument Dedicated in Alabama to Those Who Endured Slavery
Skanner· 53 minutes agoThousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War</ ...
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was once site of Union Army camp during the Civil War
Belleville News-Democrat· 7 hours agoThe grounds which serve as the site of Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was used very much as it is today 170...
Congress Rejects Republican Effort To Restore Confederate ‘Mammy’ Statue To Arlington National...
Blavity via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoThe U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted to block a move to restore a controversial monument...
After more than one try, West Virginia became a state of the union
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoJun. 20—Today is West Virginia Day, the anniversary of West Virginia becoming the nation's 35th state. To my knowledge, West Virginia is the only state that was created by seceding from an existing ...
Thousands of Black Civil War troops organized in Macon. This vet keeps their history alive
Macon Telegraph via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoHe shared with festival attendees a story he has shared repeatedly all over the state — three of the...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
Horizon rating: How grown-up is Kevin Costner's new four-film Western saga?
Popverse· 3 hours agoKevin Costner’s decades-long quest to bring Horizon: An American Saga to cinemas is about to come to...
Two national parks to honor Black soldiers for Juneteenth
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 day agoWilliam Garvin was a former slave who enlisted in the military during the Civil War.National Park...
Local historian shares tales of St. Helena’s freed people during and after the Civil War
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat was two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, during the Civil War....
Donald Sutherland, veteran actor and father of Kiefer Sutherland, dead at 88
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoActor Donald Sutherland, who starred in films including "Klute," "M*A*SH*," "Ordinary People" and,...