Appomattox: Where America's Civil War Neared Its End
Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
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Appomattox: Where America’s Civil War Neared Its End
Of all the NPS Civil War sites we visited, our favorite is probably Appomattox Court House National Historical Park that is particularly impressive. The visit was so enjoyable we decided to return ...
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Elon Musk Has Broken the Constitutional Order
The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’etat across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can ...
Trump and Musk might just save us from trillions of dollars of US debt | Opinion
It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...
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Sunday is Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Why does Florida have 3 Confederate holidays?
Southern textbooks altered historical facts in lessons about the "War Between the States ... Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, to Union Gen.
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Fort Fisher celebrates 160th anniversary, $20M visitor center launch
WILMINGTON – Historians, Civil War buffs ... and ended up surrendering to General U.S. Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House. True, the fort was not the picturesque equal to Fort Sumter ...