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The 15 Best Things To Do In Richmond, Kentucky
Southern Living via Yahoo News· 8 months agoRichmond, Kentucky may take its name from Virginia’s capital city, but this small town in the bluegrass region has its own important place in American...
Remains of 4 Confederate soldiers, amputated legs and gold coins found at a Civil War battlefield in...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTwo gold coins Graves containing the skeletal remains of four Civil War soldiers and three amputated...
In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
Scripps News via AOL· 1 month agoA Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high...
The only woman to receive the Medal of Honor is getting her own quarter
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 11 months agomedal of honor quarter In 2024, the U.S. Mint will issue quarters featuring five prominent American...
Battlefields around the world are finding new purpose as parks and refuges
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAntietam National Battlefield, Maryland, site of a savage Civil War battle on Sept. 17, 1862. NPSThe...
The Least Irredeemable Confederate General Is Finally Getting His Day in the Sun
Slate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIt’s hard to see Elizabeth Varon’s new biography of James Longstreet becoming a runaway bestseller,...
Bridges Texas History column: Lubbock brothers played key parts in Civil War, politics
Amarillo Globe-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTwo orphaned brothers headed west in search of adventure and a new life. The story is common in the...
York in American History: The men who built the Nubble and Boone Island Lighthouses
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn this essay, James Kences talks about the men who designed the two well-known lighthouses off the...
How W.W.H. Davis, 'the patron saint of Doylestown,' became a Bucks County legend
Bucks County Courier Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMany years ago, my literary agent secured an advance from Simon & Schuster for me to write a book about 900 Missouri horse soldiers led by a charismatic lawyer dispatched to seize Mexico’s territorial ...
Here’s why Gov. DeSantis is wrong. Fort Bragg needed a new name. | Editorial
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBraxton Bragg was a slave-owning racist and failed military leader, sometimes described as the worst general of the Civil War. The question should be, why would anyone name a military base after ...