Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...
How Deborah Sampson posed as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War (and treated her own gunshot wound)
In the annals of Revolutionary War soldiers, Massachusetts was full of notable figures. But there were none quite like ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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Music During the American Civil War
The musicians of the Union and Confederate armies provided strong memories of the homes left behind for the battlefield. Who Was the Real Cleopatra? (03:31) Fact or Fiction? The Legend of the ...
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Scientists Just Used Ancient Sources To Recreate Julius Caesar’s Signature Perfume
In ancient Rome, high-ranking generals and politicians used unique perfumes to set themselves apart — and now scientists have ...
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Civil War Veteran Reburied with Honors at Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery
Nicholas Waters, who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, was originally buried in Tyaskin in 1911. However, his family recently had his remains relocated to ...
Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich
As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.
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Smoke and memory: A Civil War painting endures in Minnesota’s Capitol
At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...
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In the Democrats’ looming civil war, one side is already doomed
In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, self-reflection is ...