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Memorial Day events in the local Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia area
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWorld War II Museum in New Orleans and author of "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning...
Major Walker: North Platte’s most beloved Civil War veteran
North Platte Telegraph· 1 day agoLeicester Walker gazed with 76-year-old eyes over the open field before him, the field where the ...
A Confederate statue in North Carolina praises 'faithful slaves.' Some citizens want it gone
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe "Lost Cause" narrative refers in general to attempts to present the Civil War from the...
Editorial: Remember this Memorial Day the lives it took to keep U.S. safe and at peace
Tulsa World· 3 days agoIt became a national cemetery during the war in June 1864 after the property’s executor — Gen. ...
James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe was fully on board with secession, and he was well-regarded by the Confederate elite and rank-and-file alike. Robert E. Lee once remarked ...
The importance of rejecting 'historical fiction'
The Eagle-Tribune· 4 days agoMy wife and I quite enjoy movies and television series dealing with history, with the understanding that much of it will be dramatized to make it more...
Juneteenth proclaimed state holiday again in Alabama, after bill to make it permanent falters
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has again authorized Juneteenth— the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — as a state holiday, while legislative efforts to make it a permanent holiday ...
Virginia school board restores Confederate names
Virginia Mercury via Yahoo News· 7 days agoProud and satisfied, or sad and embarrassed. However citizens of the commonwealth view Shenandoah County School Board’s recent decision, Virginia appears...
70 years after Brown, we’re fighting the same battles over again
The Hill· 6 days agoOne of these has been living right across the river from Virginia, which up until very recently had...
Civil War unit, often called Schuylkill Regiment, focus of presentation in Orwigsburg
Republican & Herald, Pottsville, Pa. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoORWIGSBURG — Civil War historian Ben Varner discussed the explosive history of the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment recently at the Orwigsburg Historical Society ...
