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At Last, The U.S. Military Won't Have Bases Named After Confederates
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoU.S. Army (retired) General Lloyd Austin speaks after being formally nominated to be Secretary of...
Hold off, Geraldo: West Point time capsule held something, after all
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWEST POINT − Days after what appeared to be a "Geraldo" moment — when the U.S. Military Academy held...
What You Need to Know About Juneteenth
E! News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than 155 years after the last of the enslaved African-Americans were freed, Juneteenth celebrations commemorating that fateful day have taken on a...
Editorial: Turning the page on Confederate namesakes
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe renaming of Fort Lee, Fort Pickett and Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, and six other Army bases named for Confederate military leaders, makes a powerful statement that the military recognizes ...
United Daughters of the Confederacy would lose Virginia tax breaks, if Youngkin signs off
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoLegislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy — the...
Bringing one of Norfolk’s oldest homes back to life: The Taylor-Whittle House is 231 years old and...
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNot much attention has been paid to the historic Taylor-Whittle House over the past decade. The home...
Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoHow should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially...
York in American History: Thomas Nelson Page
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThomas Nelson Page, a prominent summer resident of York Harbor in the early 1890s. His mansion, Rock Ledge overlooked the harbor but burned down in 1944.
Lewiston Sun Journal
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJun. 17—LEWISTON — Back in 1912, a 74-year-old Virginia native who had long lived in Lewiston told a Lewiston Evening Journal reporter about his memories as a free Black child growing up in ...
