The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

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Harvard University will relinquish the earliest known images of enslaved people in the United States, ending a decades-long ...

Federal officials awarded a $1.28 billion border wall project in Southern Arizona to a company favored by President Trump, five months after a previous contract led to accusations of improper ...

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This national event galvanized efforts to honor and remember fallen soldiers that began with local observances at burial grounds in several towns throughout the United States following the end of ...