Last week, the White House legal counsel wrote to congressional leaders stating President Donald Trump’s legal views of the impeachment [...]
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VIRGINIA: Researchers Excavate Civil War-Era ‘Ghost Fleet’
SUFFOLK, Va. – What lies beneath? That’s the big question a group of archeologists [...]
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Earlier this year, the historian Timothy Naftali revealed a 1971 conversation between Richard Nixon, then the president of the United States, and Ronald Reagan, then the governor of California, in which Reagan referred to African United Nations delegates as “monkeys” who are “still uncomfortable wearing shoes.” Reagan was expressing anger over those African nations that voted […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cities Contextualize Confederate Statues
In this May 19, 2017 photo, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from Lee Circle in New Orleans. AP PHOTO
In Franklin, Tennessee, a lifesize statue of a Confederate [...]
Women Edited Out of Civil War
Statues of men in uniform, Union and Confederate, astride their big horses, still dot the landscape of the North and the South: Brave men, no doubt, but where were the women during those bloody years? Consider not [...]