Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia. “I wonder why nobody has noticed this outbreak until now?” ponders nurse ...
Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...
The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular ...
AUSTIN, Texas — At the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865, 3.5 million enslaved Black Americans were freed. But even though the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery in the Confederacy had been ...
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how ...
Years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, these people stood up. Black and white, male and female, enslaved and free, they publicly opposed racism and violence and fought for freedom and equality.
As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief can drift far from the truth. Much like the old game of telephone, the ...
Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil ...
William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...
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