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With tensions rising, book explores personalities behind the Civil War
Star News via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoThen there's James Henry Hammond, sent by South Carolina to the U.S. Senate to defend slavery --...
Southeast Nebraska state school board race highlights mental health, teacher retention
Nebraska Examiner via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoLINCOLN — Three educators with backgrounds in mental health and nursing are looking to succeed a...
U.S. Marshals Museum opens “Cherokee Freedmen” exhibit
KNWA Fayetteville via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoFORT SMITH, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith has a new exhibit all about...
Virginia County Reinstates Confederate School Names 4 Years After Racial Reckoning Prompted Their...
People via Yahoo News· 9 hours ago“I think it is unfair to me that restoring the name is up for discussion,” said student Aliyah Ogle,...
Ink didn't end New Mexico's history of peonage
Santa Fe New Mexican· 5 days agoIn December 1865, eight months after the Confederacy surrendered at Appomattox, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution took effect, banning slavery and...
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two schools
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoSchool board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two...
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Is Just a Lot of Monkeying Around
Reason.com via AOL· 16 hours agoBut his footsoldiers massacre peaceful ape clans, and his murderous forces wear face coverings and...
Virginia School District Reinstates Confederate Names at Two Schools
The Wall Street Journal· 13 hours agoDebate over the place of Confederate symbols—viewed by some as a glorification of slavery and others...
100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university – part of the terror group’s crusade against...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoIts goal was to use whatever means necessary – including a great deal of murderous violence – to...
Jayne Anne Phillips' novel 'Night Watch,' Eboni Booth’s drama 'Primary Trust' among Pulitzer winners
WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke· 4 days agoStories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, were winners this year for the...