Topic: United States
The cannons boomed and the guns flared as the mists of times parted, and north and south squared off again on a Virginia field in a living reminder of the first major battle of the Civil War."We know the war is over," ...
With a fife and drum band playing Yankee Doodle and civil war re-enactors sweltering in the summer sun, a museum honoring the contribution of African Americans in the US Civil War moved into its new home in Washington Monday."It is finally finished, ...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hundreds of African-American Union soldiers buried in the National Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina, after the Civil War were honored Thursday with a state highway historical marker.Many of the "United States Colored Troops," as they were known ...
He owns a musket and a flask carried by soldiers in the US Civil War and has journeyed five times to Gettysburg to explore the conflict's most iconic battlefield.But this enthusiast for all things Civil War is not one of the legions ...
Americans on Tuesday mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the US Civil War, a bloody conflict that historians say still deeply influences the United States. "The Civil War is one of the most significant events in American history in terms ...
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - They wrote letters to each other, were both assassinated in public, and led separate campaigns to free large swathes of their countrymen.Czar Alexander II and President Abraham Lincoln now share the spotlight in a new exhibit, which Russia ...
Blue and shades of gray: Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on the role of slaveryAt South Carolina's Secession Gala, men in frock coats and militia uniforms and women in hoopskirts will sip mint juleps as a band called Unreconstructed plays "Dixie." ...
The ancestors of the West Texas Native Americans lived in camps perhaps as long as 37,000 years ago. By 1528, when the first Europeans entered the interior of Texas, the area was sparsely settled, but the culture and habitation of the Native ...
Moreover, in the three decades before the American Civil War, shiploads of German, Polish, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, and Irish immigrants made their way from the Eastern Seaboard to Texas. As a result, some churches in Texas still conduct services in Swedish, Czech, ...
As discussed in The U.S. War Department Appoints Commissioners of Indian Affairs, Thomas McKenney was the first Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the office continued to be an important one. Lt. Colonel Ely S. Parker was the first Native American to serve ...
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