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What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoBettmann/Getty Images Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit...
Opinion | The real reason the MAGA right is brandishing upside-down American flags
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThis Flag Day I called up experts to discuss what an upside-down flag means wand why the...
A Lexington cemetery honors Civil War heroes with Juneteenth Jubilee
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe ceremony was held at African Cemetery No. 2, the resting place of many Civil War veterans....
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLincoln and most of the Republican Party may not have had immediate emancipation, arming slaves, and full Black citizenship on their minds when the < ...
A Juneteenth history lesson, remembrance at Civil War soldier's grave site in Riverhead
Newsday· 1 day agoAmid a bloody Civil War in which the freedom of millions of enslaved people likely hung in the...
New Play Plumbs the Personal and Political Civil War
The American Conservative· 2 days agoMore than a year had passed since the South had launched its attack on Fort Sumter, and in the summer of 1862, the war
How the Civil War spurred the animal welfare movement
The Christian Science Monitor· 6 days agoAs Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy explain in “Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came To Feel the...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 1 day agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
Local organizer explains origins of Juneteenth
WIBW Topeka· 4 days agoThe newest federal holiday recognized by the United States government, Juneteenth, has a storied history. “Major Granger after the < ...
Was Glendale a 'central station' on Underground Railroad? Village split on alleged ties
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoStanley Matthews, an abolitionist who later became a Supreme Court associate justice, also owned...
