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Bob Cembrola: Portsmouth’s Lovell General Hospital played a large role in the Civil War
Although no Civil War battles took place in Rhode Island, a hospital in Portsmouth, Rhode Island played a large role in ...
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
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The United States Has Always Been a Divided Nation
Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.
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The Other Side of Sherman’s March
The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...
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Bob Cembrola: Discovery of British frigates and the University of Rhode Island
After years of oppressive British policies which stifled commerce in Narragansett Bay and surrounding communities, the Colony of R.I. and Providence Plantations renounced allegiance to the Crown on ...
When Harriet Tubman Helped Lead a Civil War Raid That Freed 750 People
With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...
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Black Civil War soldiers massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky, remembered 160 years later
Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...
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“All in Ironton are Black Except…”—A Civil War Confederate Spy Map
A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...
How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife
The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...
70 Extremely Rare And Fascinating Pictures From American History That Will Completely And Totally Change Your Perspective On The Past
"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are ...
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US sanctions Sudan army chief Burhan over civilian deaths
Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been leading the army during Sudan's 21-month civil war The US government has imposed sanctions on the head of Sudan's army and de facto president, Gen Abdel Fattah ...