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Henry Wirz: The Only Confederate Officer to Be Executed for War Crimes After the American Civil War
What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...
Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...
What Black history in pre-Civil War Cincinnati looked like, per a celebrated scholar
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...
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10 Civil War Sites Every History Buff Needs to See
The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...
Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to undo the Civil War
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...
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World War II Museum explores Black experiences in the fight for freedom, abroad and at home
A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...
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LCCC to host traveling exhibition on “African Americans in Civil War Medicine”
African Americans in Civil War Medicine” traveling exhibition will be held at the Luzerne County Community College Library ...
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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship ... This is set to be the first African American monument outside South Carolina’s State House.