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‘Prepare to die’: Civil War battle rages at Green Bluff on Memorial Day weekend
Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...
RETRO FIND: Graves of Black Civil War heroes cared for by community
The cemetery housing the twelve Civil War heroes and their families was adopted by Vietnam veterans, who ensure the upkeep of ...
Yakima Herald-Republic10d
'Prepare to die': Civil War battle rages at Green Bluff on Memorial Day weekend
transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend. Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate soldiers traded rifle, pistol and cannon fire, sending white smoke into the air and ...
Black people were overjoyed when the Nottoway Plantation burned down. I went to Louisiana to learn more about its horrific history.
It seemed like an appropriate time to visit Nottoway, which in many ways is emblematic of how some want to whitewash ...
As We Honor Our Veterans This Memorial Day, It Was Black Soldiers Who Sparked Its Origins
Memorial Day is often associated with barbecues, parades, & the unofficial start date of summer, but it’s origin is rooted in ...
The New York Times9d
We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
Faust is the author of “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” and a former president ... They had fought against the “hell-black system of human bondage” and ...
Chip Minemyer | 'This is American history': Veterans museum makeover will spotlight all who served
A circular display in the center of Sandyvale Memorial Gardens and Conservancy includes 21 flat stones honoring area Civil War veterans, surrounding a cannon and a tall pole flying the U.S. and ...
Mercury News23d
5 historic sites to learn more about the Bay Area’s Civil War era
He borrowed from Baker’s speech to help spread the word of Broderick’s death and fuel the anti-slavery movement, telling San Francisco’s Black ... a white person.” When the Civil War ...
Yakima Herald9d
It Happened Here: Grand Army of the Republic honored with monument at Tahoma Cemetery
Grand Army of the Republic members participated in the annual Memorial Day parades in Yakima and Sunnyside, and decorated the ...
Smithsonian Magazine22d
The Real History of the Complex Relationship Between Chinese and Black Americans in the Mississippi Delta
The adornments of his life told an unfinished story of an American proud of his Chinese and Black heritage. Near a black-and-white photo ... In the post-Civil War era, anti-Chinese sentiments ...