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How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die
Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.
The Daily Item5d
Celebrations muted in the Valley when the Civil War ended
Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...
ABC News17d
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought ... collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once the research was ...
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ACLU files another lawsuit to stop Trump from using 18th-century law for deportations
The American Civil Liberties Union and its Texas branch filed an emergency lawsuit Wednesday morning to try to stop the Trump ...
Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees
President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader ...
The Courier-Journal18d
'Rebel on Main' dissects the legacy of a Kentucky Confederate monument wearing a Union hat
An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat. David Swartz ...