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Trump’s base is divided over America’s apparent complicity in a series of strikes that could kick off a regional war—or worse ...
The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...
On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the wars in York County.
This article expands and updates a June 2020 article. Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion ...
The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.
As archaeologists with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation excavated a site in search of American Revolution history, the ...
It started as a mundane environmental cleanup along the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, and ended as a trip back ...
Born in Maryland to free Black American parents, Benson had emigrated with his family to the West African colony at the age of 6. By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the ...
Heather Khalifa for The New York Times The Education Department has not always determined that Native American mascots violate civil rights, especially if investigators do not identify harm to ...
In Khartoum alone, 80 to 90 percent of emergency food kitchens were shuttered. The civil war has particularly hurt Christians. This year, Open Doors ranked Sudan as the fifth most difficult ...
When the civil war began in Sudan, Shiraz Youssef couldn’t hear the explosions, the gunfire or the screams. The 22-year-old from Khartoum lost her hearing when she was very young. But the ...