Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
The decision kicked off decades of debates over discrimination and educational access in communities across the nation. The ...
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Weiser Diplomacy Center hosts talk on reconstruction in Syria
Qutaiba Idlbi and Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji delivered a talk Thursday afternoon on post-civil war reconstruction in Syria.
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Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undue hard-won gains
which happened amid the country's Reconstruction era, the 12-year period after the Civil War when the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were adopted to push to unify and advance the country.
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
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 ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
‘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 ...
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Bruton Parish Church hangs plaque to explain existing Civil War-era tablet
WILLIAMSBURG — Unbeknownst to parishioners and the public, Bruton Parish Church officials hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet ... years to the day after Epperson ...