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Nicholas Said’s Encounters with American Racism
He suppressed his disenchantment with religion and, in March 1861, applied to the African Civilization Society, which was ...
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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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Louisiana, Texas Escalate Their War on New York Abortion Provider
We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel.
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
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.
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people during the Civil War. But perils still awaited those who arrived. In the 1860s, African Americans escaped to one of the state’s ...