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What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoJuneteenth marks one of the most important moments in American history: the end of slavery in the...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 4 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· 4 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum
Chicago Sun-Times· 11 hours 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 Illinoisan’s namesake ...
Race relations task force in Burlington call its quits without funding or much support
The Journal Times· 20 hours agoA task force on improving race relations in Burlington has voted to disband after a three-year...
...NEW DIGITAL GAME SHOWING STUDENTS HOW PRESIDENTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY RELIED ON MULTIPLE...
WDTN-TV 2 Dayton· 1 day 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 ...
Memphis residents say environmental racism prompted pollution ‘cesspool,' wreaking havoc
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoCommunity Against the Pipeline, a group formed in 2020 to stop a crude oil pipeline that would have run through Boxtown, a neighborhood established by emancipated slaves and freedmen after the ...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe House and Senate passed a bill last week directing the state Department of Education to develop...
Lara Trump Says RNC Poll Watchers Will ‘Physically Handle The Ballots,’ Which They Are Not Allowed...
Black America Web· 4 days agoThe plans were confirmed by the RNC, which announced that attorneys would be stationed at “every...