Topic: United States
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters Life!) - The history of the United States and the Civil War that nearly severed it are on display in Richmond's historic district. Robert E. Lee accepted the leadership of the Confederate Army of Virginia in the grand state ...
Calif. headstone of ex-Union Army soldier corrected after decades marked as ConfederateThe headstone of a former slave and Union soldier no longer identifies him as a member of the Confederate army, after his family failed to notice the error for years. More ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A new exhibition at Tate Modern in London takes a sneak peek through the camera lens at everything from young couples embracing in a park to execution, to ordinary passers-by walking down New York streets. "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and ...
Budget cuts put Arizona peak where cavalry fought on list of endangered Civil War battlefieldsA Southwestern desert peak where cavalry clashed nearly 150 years ago has joined an annual list of the nation's most endangered Civil War battlefields because state budget cuts ...
View from the South: Miss. governor says Virginia's Confederate History Month is no big dealThe dustup over Virginia's proclamation for Confederate History Month seems like a lot of noise over something that "doesn't amount to diddly," Mississippi's governor said in an interview ...
Amid growing national criticism, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell apologized for not acknowledging slavery in a proclamation he signed declaring April "Confederate History Month." McDonnell recognized he had made a "major omission" in not citing slavery, a practice that sparked the 1861-1865 Civil ...
Mo. looking to highlight its Civil War heritage on eve of conflict's 150th anniversaryFor a state steeped in Civil War history, Missouri can be awfully quiet about its contributions. More than 1,100 battles were fought in the border state, trailing only Virginia ...
Hollywood legend Robert Redford has signed up to direct a historical drama about the assassination of US president Abraham Lincoln, The Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday. Lincoln, whose presidential tenure took place during the 1861-1865 US civil war, emancipated slaves and was mortally ...
Camp Milton, Fla., once destined to become a sludge dump, is a little-known Civil War jewelHistory and nature have combined in a little-known park which was once the major Confederate military base in north Florida near the end of the Civil War. ...
One of nation's most endangered Civil War battlefields being restored after 2 hurricanesThe bronze likeness of Confederate Lt. Dick Dowling has survived two hurricanes in the last five years, as against the odds as the few dozen rebel Texas soldiers he led ...
