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What does the name 'Juneteenth' mean? When is Juneteenth? All about the federal holiday
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoThe day commemorates the day the slaves liberated by the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation —...
Opinion: Trump Returns to the Scene of the Crime—and the GOP Cheers
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoIt is not easy to go from betraying a state to being welcomed back into its capital.Jefferson Davis...
Southern Baptist Convention disdains female ministers, but merit should eclipse misogyny
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoFrom the Civil War to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Movement, the arc of history has always...
Local organizer explains origins of Juneteenth
WIBW Topeka· 56 minutes agoThe newest federal holiday recognized by the United States government, Juneteenth, has a storied history. “Major Granger afterthe Civil War< ...
Delhi to host Civil War reenactment
The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoJun. 13—For two days in June, a field adjacent to the Delaware County Historical Association will be transformed into the rugged battlefields of the Civil
Kevin Costner can’t say why Fort Worth loves him, except he can relate to ‘that DNA’
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 5 hours ago“Horizon: An American Saga” is a four-part Western about America’s westward expansion before and...
This wealthy white enclave was once home to newly freed Black Americans
Mother Jones· 11 hours ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Evidence of Iran and UAE drones used in Sudan war
BBC via AOL· 11 hours agoLike most of the city, the building had fallen into the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the start of the civil war</ ...
Finally, a specific accounting of land stolen from the formerly enslaved
Mother Jones· 11 hours ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Celebrate Juneteenth with these 8 events in Bucks County area
Gannett via AOL· 8 hours agoThe news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free came more than two years after...