The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops ...

Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known ...

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Six decades after the federal government ordered Concordia Parish to desegregate its schools, the district remains racially ...

James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of ...

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Hickox is now working with fellow Civil War historian Chuck Murrow on a book about local Civil War ... Preserving these items is “rescuing history from construction sites,” he said.

Leaders in the LGBTQ+ community and the family of Long Island native and gay rights activist Harvey Milk this week denounced a Pentagon review that could strip his name from a U.S. Navy ship.

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