Civil War

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July 27, 2011
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The NAACP's president is urging South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag that…
July 21, 2011
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somali soldiers beat back desperate families with gun butts Thursday as they fought for food supplies…
July 20, 2011
MOUNTAIN CREEK, Ala. (AP) - The tax once brought in millions for Confederate pensions, but lawmakers sliced up the levy…
July 19, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The African American Civil War Museum in Washington is celebrating its grand reopening in a new, larger…
July 11, 2011
The Freedom Trail, running from Boston Common to Bunker Hill, highlights legendary Bostonians such as Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, and…
July 11, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Southern Sudanese flocked to the streets of Juba to celebrate their independence on July 9th, 2011. The world's…
July 8, 2011
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Union's first black hero of the Civil War wasn't one of the African-American soldiers of…
July 2, 2011
OPINION - As with every war, including the ones currently being waged, African-Americans have served this nation nobly...
June 28, 2011
VIDEO - The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination said she praises our founding fathers for tirelessly working to end…
June 20, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Confederate officers thought nothing of leaving important documents where Scobell could see them, or discussing troop movements…
June 16, 2011
EASTON, Md. (AP) - Abolitionist Frederick Douglass is finally getting a homecoming celebration in his native Maryland county with a…
June 15, 2011
Confederate law prohibited slaves from serving as soldiers until March 1865, when it was changed in a last-gasp effort to…
May 24, 2011
In 2009, the school acknowledged that it, "owned and exploited slave labor from its founding to the Civil War..."
April 25, 2011
OPINION - For many other Southern whites, the flag and its association with Southern history, is a genuine source of…
April 19, 2011
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The National Park Service is pushing to make the events more hospitable to black people...
April 14, 2011
OPINION - The attacks on the president's citizenship, combined with the personal jabs against Mr. Obama and his family, are…
April 12, 2011
VIDEO - A fourth grade teacher at Sewells Point Elementary was teaching about the Civil War and auctioned off a…
April 12, 2011
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Five generals pledged their loyalty to President Alassane Ouattara following the capture of the country's…
April 12, 2011
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Cannon fired around Charleston Harbor in South Carolina before dawn, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the…
April 12, 2011
OPINION - As pivotal as the Civil War is in our nation's complex history, African-Americans appear less enthusiastic about the…