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When is Juneteenth observed in 2024? Is there mail delivery? All about the federal holiday
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoPresident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation...National Archives. It only applied...
Alabama state offices are closed today for another Confederate holiday
Birmingham News· 4 days agoAlabama is marking one of three Confederate holidays today. State offices are closed today to...
The United States is lurching towards civil war
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWhen the news of the Trump verdict came on the car radio, I almost had to pull over. My thought was: “This is Fort Sumter.” Just as when the South...
Viral Claim Says Every US Founding Father Was a Felon. Here Are the Facts
Snopes via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoAccessed 6 June 2024. Founders Online: The State of New Jersey v Aaron Burr: Indictment for Murder,...
When is Juneteenth observed in 2024? Here's when the US commemorates the end of slavery
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDeclared by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves held in
The hollow malevolence of Jefferson Davis
Alabama Reflector via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEven Jim Crow Alabama couldn’t muster any enthusiasm for Jefferson Davis. When an Alabama House representative filed a bill in 1900 to make his birthday...
When is Juneteenth? When does NJ celebrate the holiday?
Gannett via AOL· 7 days agoThis was more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation...the holiday on the exact day. Instead, the state celebrates it on ...
On This Day, June 2: Indian Citizenship Act becomes law
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOn June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, extending...
Lincoln-signed statehood document sold at auction to WV buyer
The Charleston Gazette· 3 days agoA West Virginian was the successful bidder in last week’s online auction of an 1861 document signed...
Diehard Trump supporters say ‘rigged’ conviction only proves why he should be president
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSome 161 years since the battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest of the Civil War, visitors to its...