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When did Kentucky actually abolish slavery? A lot later than you think.
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoApril 12, 1861: The American Civil War begin after Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter in...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Civil War reenactments this weekend at Fort Smith National Historic Site
Ft. Smith Southwest Times Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Arkansas and Fort Smith stories of the Civil War 1861-1865 will be told with historic reenactors...
When Portsmouth mourned President Abraham Lincoln
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe first U.S. president born west of the Appalachian Mountains came quietly into the world on Feb. 12, 1809, but Portsmouth and the rest of the world...
The shortest American Civil War summary you'll ever read
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...
'I was glad I was there': Men, women who served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam honored
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs upbeat patriotic music filled the air, about 20 veterans from the World War II, Korean and...
When did the Civil War end? A (quick) history of America's deadliest war.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher ...
Juneteenth Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHere is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved ...
Soul food is the taste of Juneteenth
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 12 months agoJun. 18—PLATTSBURGH — Juneteenth tastes like the Central and West African foodways, which were transported along with between 10 and 12 million captured and trafficked in the transAtlantic slave ...
Timeline: Follow the history of Studebaker during its 111 years in South Bend
Gannett via AOL· 6 months agoEditor's note: The majority of this timeline of the Studebaker Corp. originally appeared in The...
