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Black Civil War soldiers honored, name by name, at Vicksburg battlefield
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 3 months agoVICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi...
'West Wing' star Bradley Whitford discovers his personal connection to Ulysses S. Grant and the...
Yahoo TV via AOL· 2 years agoOn a new episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Sunday night, actor Bradley Whitford, who is best...
This Civil War amputee led first expedition through the Grand Canyon
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFirst camp of the John Wesley Powell expedition, in the willows, Green River, Wyo. Terr. The Civil...
Hopefully, Till monuments will survive the test of time
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWay down in Amite County in the hamlet of Liberty, adjacent to the “Charlie Gordon Building,” once...
Howey: About that ‘clear path’ in the Ukraine war
The Courier & Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTwo years after the American Continental Congress had declared independence, George Washington’s army settled in for its third bitterly cold winter...
Ill. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and wife donate key Civil War document to Lincoln presidential library
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoSPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the...
Opinion: When President Grant touted public education in Des Moines in 1875
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the fall of 1875, the area in Des Moines — then a city of only about 17,000 residents — in and...
Column: The UAW sends a lightning bolt into anti-union states with a huge victory at a VW plant
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, center, is the architect of a series of labor victories...
Small American Towns That Changed the Course of Our History
Cheapism via AOL· 3 months agoThese small towns have so much history packed in, from pioneer wagon ruts to atomic revelations,...
Four Lessons Georgia Democrats Can Learn From the History of Black Self-Governance in America
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via GettyGeorgia stands a good chance to become the first state...