EdSurge18h
Laws Against Black Literacy in Pre-Civil War South Still Haunt Education, Expert Says
The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...
Christianity Today18h
In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...
'Lost' Union troops killed at Battle of Olustee are in S.C. cemetery, says local writer
Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...
The Irrawaddy1d
Myanmar Junta Bombards TNLA Positions Amid ‘Peace’ Talks in China
The military regime has intensified air and artillery assaults on Ta’ang rebel-held areas in northern Shan State, presumably to improve its negotiating position.
Alaska Dispatch News6d
How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
Rwanda-backed rebels advance into eastern Congo's 2nd major city of Bukavu, residents say
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels enter Bukavu, escalating conflict and causing displacement in eastern Congo amid ceasefire ...