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This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...
Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...
Here’s when Mother’s Day 2025 is in the U.S., why the date changes each year and a quick breakdown of the origins of the holiday.
By the summer of 1860 he was working as ... the letters along with other Civil War artifacts, including a Federal Forage Cap worn by Union soldiers, a canteen, a regimental flag, a glass inkwell ...
The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...
Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...
With the anniversary of his famous journey fast approaching, remember there was a lot more to the early American patriot than ...
(In the Civil War, Sam grew a beard modeled on Lincoln’s.) Uncle Sam didn’t really become a household name until Thomas Nast’s sketches in Harper’s Weekly in the late 1860s and ’70s ...
Here’s when Mother’s Day 2025 is in the U.S., why the date changes each year and a quick breakdown of the origins of the holiday.
The state bought the land from local farmers, drew up an impressive grid of streets, and started selling lots. By 1820, Cahawba was Alabama’s first permanent capital city, with lawmakers meeting in a ...
Kildare County Council's Library & Arts Service has announced the details of the 9th Irish Military Seminar, with events ...