Sidestep: Adventures Into History on MSN

How was a 7-year-old a Civil War veteran? We found his grave

We returned to a small family cemetery in the Georgia woods to revisit the grave of Benjamin Williams, a Confederate veteran born in 1854. After speaking with a local historian, we learned something ...
Noel Ignatiev1 left a conflicted antifascist legacy. As a member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (sto), Ignatiev made important contributions to understanding fascism, above all its autonomous ...
In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set to work among the graves of their fallen comrades. Some were “frail of ...