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Kara Walker exhibit at Frick Pittsburgh challenges how Civil War history was explained to America
The new exhibit includes 15 works by Kara Walker, featuring her signature silhouettes of Black people overlaid on large ...
For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
Alec Baldwin: US ‘in a pre-Civil War culture now’
Alec Baldwin says the country is in a “bad” state of political division, describing it as a “pre-Civil War environment.” “Boy ...
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What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?
How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...
Trump’s tariffs may be a blow to Europe and a gift to China
The impetus of what President Donald Trump has called “Liberation Day” is clear. He wants to impose sizable tariffs on many ...
Historian shares local Civil War lore with Morgan’s Raid
The story is a big part of Civil War lore. Tim Brookes shares the knowledge whenever he’s asked. You can learn more about ...
The Man Behind the Man Who Broke MLB's Color Barrier: Branch Rickey
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives," Jackie Robinson said not long before he died in 1972.
Land reparations are possible, and more than 225 US communities are already working to make amends
Ever since the United States government's unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American "40 acres and a mule ...
Ratcliffe the good MAGA foot soldier
CIA Director John Ratcliffe has been unusually public in speaking about his efforts to align with President Donald Trump’s ambitions.
Trump may be his own worst enemy on Greenland
Vice President JD Vance, center, visits a U.S. military base in northern Greenland. European officials and outside experts have warned that the window of opportunity for greater U.S-Greenland ...