When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down
Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed ... hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers ...
Remembering the battle of Nashville in the Civil War fought 160 years ago
The city has marked the Battle of Nashville for decades. Now, a new effort is underway to preserve Fort Negley.
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Census data analysis shows the South had a much higher mortality rate than the North in the US Civil War
Bar chart showing estimated excess male deaths during the Civil War era among military-aged native-born white males. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073 ...
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The Average American Is Stumped By These Simple Civil War Questions
As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...
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Africa's newest country that's been ravaged by civil war during its 13 year existence
Formerly recognised as an independent nation in 2011 following a 2005 agreement to end a decades-long civil war, the ten most southern states broke away from Sudan to form South Sudan. However ...
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Appomattox: Where America’s Civil War Neared Its End
At one Civil War site in South Carolina we were the lone participants on a guided ... The village of Appomattox Court House ...
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Civil War
was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and ...