Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...
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Inside The Pig War Of 1859, When A Dead Pig Almost Triggered A Battle Between America And Great Britain
On June 15, 1859, an American settler named Lyman Cutlar noticed a pig rooting around in his potato patch on one of the San Juan Islands. The pig had "been at several times a great annoyance," and the ...
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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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America has been teetering on the edge of civil war. Did Donald Trump’s victory seal our fate?
Following the second election of Donald Trump, I discovered that several of my acquaintances voted for the twice impeached ...
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Instability in South Sudan
After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil ... were killed during the war, with an ...
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The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...
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Ukraine-Russia war map: Where are Putin’s forces making gains on the frontline as 2025 begins?
They have reached the outskirts of the village of Shevchenko beyond the reservoir and behind Kurakhove, according to DeepState, a Ukrainian war tracker with close ties to the military. Some of ...
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Viruses spiking in the United States as peak season arrives in winter
Jan. 4 (UPI) --Several viruses -- seasonal respiratory flu, stomach flu, COVID-19 and RSV -- are surging in the United States and are expected to spike during the winter months, according to the ...
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IDF says number of troop suicides has risen during war, with hundreds of thousands in reserves
The high number of reservist suicides is explained by the IDF calling up nearly 300,000 reservists during the war. All of the 38 suspected suicides in 2023 and 2024 were male. The IDF says it is ...
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Ukraine-Russia war map: Where are Putin’s forces making gains on the frontline as 2025 begins?
Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more successful is a ...
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Republicans Admit MAGA Civil War Is a Total ‘S**tshow’—and It’s Only Gonna Get Worse
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Why Trump has struggled to quell the MAGA 'civil war' over immigration
Why did Trump struggle to quell the so-called MAGA “civil war”? Because he still ... workers like software engineers to work in the United States for up to three years and can be extended ...