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Furor and conflicting views continue over Haley’s statement about origin of Civil War | Opinion
The State via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMissing history? Concerning the furor directed at Nikki Haley for answering a question about the...
Pilgrimage tour celebrates county's role in abolition
Star Beacon, Ashtabula, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 9—JEFFERSON — The abolitionist movement in Ashtabula County came to life on Saturday at several locations during a pilgrimage tour of historic sites. The 43rd annual Hubbard House Underground ...
The Perils and Promise of America's Third Reconstruction
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - Illustration by Ajubel Studio for TIME W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing...
Righting the past: Euphrozine Hinard, enslaver and emancipator, dead at 90
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoEditor’s note: This is the 20th in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men...
Texas history museum dissects treaty that ended Mexican American War and changed the world
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBe honest: What do you really know about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? The accord that formally...
Letters to the Editor: Is America's original sin racism or greed?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoReaders discuss an op-ed article by a history professor who said that greed was initially behind the...
Why did A.B. Farquhar surrender York to the Confederates? He's been unfairly vilified
York Daily Record via Yahoo News· 12 months agoOn the 160th anniversary of the June 27, 1863 surrender of York to the approaching Confederate Army,...
International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., pays new respect to the enslaved Africans...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOne of the exhibits of notable Black people on display at International African American Museum....
Will Smith returns in the brutal Emancipation , while Jim Parsons and Tilda Swinton grapple with...
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhat's worth your time in movies and TV this weekend? EW's critics review the latest releases:...
Free communities offered tenuous grip on safety in era of slavery
The Herald, Sharon, Pa. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 5—The law was passed in Washington D.C., but it set off tremors that shook the ground in Mercer County and destroyed a community. In Washington, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part ...
