Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...
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'Kidnapped at Sea' Dispels the Old 'Sea Story' of a Black Sailor in the Confederate Navy
The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...
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For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for
But since the end of the Civil War, journalists at Black newspapers ... from the late nineteenth century until today, Confederate monuments were part of a relentless propaganda campaign to restore the ...
Sunday is Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Why does Florida have 3 Confederate holidays?
Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.
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The Lost Cause: Historical Society to discuss Civil War
The Winter program of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society (CVHS) will be held virtually at 3 p.m. EST on Sunday, ...
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“All in Ironton are Black Except…”—A Civil War Confederate Spy Map
A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...
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Sunday is Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Why does Florida have 3 Confederate holidays?
South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Lee County in Florida formed in 1887 from Monroe County with Fort Myers, the site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Myers, as its county seat. Confederate ...