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What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 24 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...
Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered as instrumental in preserving one of the earliest free Black...
Daily Press· 3 hours agoA cousin of Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered him as a disruptor. Dozens of people attended a...
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...
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 ...
Race relations task force in Burlington call its quits without funding or much support
The Journal Times· 1 day agoA task force on improving race relations in Burlington has voted to disband after a three-year...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum
Chicago Sun-Times· 19 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 ...
Memphis residents say environmental racism prompted pollution ‘cesspool,' wreaking havoc
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days 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...
...NEW DIGITAL GAME SHOWING STUDENTS HOW PRESIDENTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY RELIED ON MULTIPLE...
WDTN-TV 2 Dayton· 2 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 ...