The Gettysburg Times7h
Factors that led to the failure of the Confederacy
The January 2025 meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg featured Dr. Christian B. Keller speaking to his book, “Southern Strategies: Why The Confederacy Failed,” published in 2021 ...
Alaska Dispatch News7h
How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
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US Civil Rights Movement has roots in Washington County
Black History Month is a time to reflect on the nation’s civil rights struggles. Hagerstown author Ed Maliskas said ...
5 Medical Innovations from the Civil War
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
The Art Newspaper17h
As Sudan’s civil war rages on, its heritage is under siege
Less than a month into Sudan’s civil war, which began in 2023, videos surfaced of militants inside the National Museum’s bioarchaeology laboratory boasting that they had found ...
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...
Walking through history and Savannah’s stories of slavery
A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.