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Aged just 19, Alawia Babiker Ahmed miscarried as she was fleeing on foot the devastating war that has ravaged Sudan's western region of Darfur ... Sudan has been wracked by a civil war since fighting ...
But one unique story of Black migration and land dispossession is now being told. That's the story of the Kingdom of the ...
The Heritage Commission wants an archaeological survey of land set to become affordable housing, where enslaved African ...
A group that works to publicize and remember an infamous chapter in Elmira's history — a Civil War prison camp where ...
Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...
Harry walked through a minefield in Angola, retracing a journey by his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Several ...
G iddy up: Horizon: An American Saga, out in theaters on June 28, is a new Western set in the Civil War-era by Kevin Costner, who directed, co-wrote, produced, and starred in the movie. Horizon ...
New Looks at the Civil War in the West. In this new book from Savas Beatie’s “Emerging Civil War” series, Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris Mackowski have collected forty-seven short papers by thirty ...
After the Civil War, the federal government’s pledge of 40 acres and a mule to the formerly enslaved has been known as a broken promise. But a new report reveals that not only did the government ...
University of Cincinnati Professor Christopher Phillips talked about the way tactics and ideologies from the Western Theater, such as guerrilla fighting, influenced other theaters of the Civil War.