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 ...
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 ...
Historical Digs on MSN
How Libby Prison became a symbol of human suffering
It wasn’t just a prison — it was a nightmare made real. Libby Prison, deep in the heart of Confederate Richmond, became ...
RICHMOND, Va. — A Northern Virginia delegate has introduced a bill that would eliminate two license plates commemorating the ...
What do you get when you combine a murder mystery, a legend of Confederate gold, references to Annie Lee’s grave, a ...
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The Real Fight for the Smithsonian
But the Smithsonian has long sought a higher mission than national storage. George Brown Goode, who ran the Smithsonian in ...
The efforts are the latest chapter in an extraordinary rewriting of history by the president and his allies to bury the facts ...
A proposal to add historical context to a Confederate monument in Florence was rejected by the City Council, leaving the ...
On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States' first known case of novel ...
A resolution looking to place a historical marker in front of a Confederate monument in front of the Lauderdale County ...
The Florence City Council voted Tuesday evening on whether or not to place a marker in front of a controversial Confederate ...
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