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Exhibit on emancipation at Williams College powerful, necessary
Albany Times Union· 3 days agoThe anchor is the 1862 executive order by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, which has...
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering ...
AOL· 6 days agoOn this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm ...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum
Chicago Sun-Times· 2 days agoOne of the most fateful documents of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency — and in all of American history — will go on public display this week at the legendary ...
ICIVICS AND THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION LAUNCH "BRIEF THE CHIEF," A NEW DIGITAL GAME...
WDTN-TV 2 Dayton· 3 days agoDeveloped in consultation with top historians and educational games experts, Brief the Chief gives students insight into American history by teaching them how Thomas Jefferson, Abraham ...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 5 days agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation ...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
April marks the beginning and end of the American Civil War
Daily Press· 3 days agoApril is a good time to explore local sites that focus on the American Civil War, which began on...
Military Book Review The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General,...
Strategy Page· 4 days agoPulitzer-prize-winning journalist Dean Calbreath gives us a fine biography of Mohammed Ali ben Sa'id (1836-1882). Born into wealth and privilege in the ancient African kingdom of Borno, he might ...