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Davis: My granddad, and how he put the hero John Brown on my mind
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI grew up on Fort Bragg, but I was born in small-town Albemarle. While my military community was...
Suits to save Confederate icons dropped in South Carolina
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Lawsuits filed to stop the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders and a...
What to America is John Brown?
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCapture of John Brown in the engine house The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images On December 2, 1859, the United States saw its first execution...
How a ‘border ruffian’ who supported slavery got a monument honoring him in a KC park
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA reader asked about the history behind a memorial to Charles Carroll Spalding in Penn Valley Park....
American oligarchy: The fight for democracy is just the first step
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNikki Haley; Donald Trump; Jeff Bezos Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Historians have been...
A paper-mache severed head? Arizonans go to Mexico to celebrate Crabb Massacre
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAt the annual April 6 parade in Caborca, Mexico, a Prescott Sister Cities float features a...
The Jitter Factor
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFrom the Boiling Frogs on The Dispatch Joe Biden is seen on screen through a window at a watch party for a presidential debate between him and Donald...
Unlocking Putnam's lesser-known Underground Railroad history
Times Recorder via Yahoo News· 2 years agoZANESVILLE — It was 1866 when Frederick Douglass spoke at the Putnam Presbyterian Church for the...
Before Civil War, Kansas town divided parties and even helped elect Abraham Lincoln | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 7 months agoDisputed elections, fracturing political parties, protracted fights over the leadership of Congress,...
How NJ's plan to get favored son elected led to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 nomination
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA national champion, Abraham Lincoln found little favor in New Jersey. Although he often passed through, Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, spent far more time in New Jersey. As the Civil War ...