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Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was once site of Union Army camp during the Civil War
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 3 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· 17 hours agoThe U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted to block a move to restore a controversial monument...
On Juneteenth, Alabama's new National Monument to Freedom dedicated to those who endured slavery
Fox News· 1 hour agoThe Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, dedicated its National Monument...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
After more than one try, West Virginia became a state of the union
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 3 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 ...
America is still haunted by the ghost of Ronald Reagan's corruption
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoThe progress we’ve made in women’s suffrage, equal rights, civil rights, the separation of church...
Thousands of Black Civil War troops organized in Macon. This vet keeps their history alive
Macon Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoHe shared with festival attendees a story he has shared repeatedly all over the state — three of the...
Early white settlers were witness to early Sheboygan County Native American villages
Gannett via AOL· 5 hours agoIt was thought best to congregate in town rather than be on the farm, so a rapid influx of people...
The beginner’s guide to celebrating Juneteenth
Politico via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two ...
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....