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Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...
Celebrations across the country marked Juneteenth, the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom ...
In 2025, archaeologists researching the Civil War history of Kentucky found what may be two mass graves near Simpsonville.
Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.
Bas-reliefs at the station keep the memory of one of the largest and crucial battles of the Great Patriotic War. They depict anti-tank “hedgehogs”, which have become symbols of the capital’s defense, ...
The monument, unveiled on May 10, is dedicated to the memory of Tamils killed in the war. On May 18, 2025, Tamils in Sri Lanka and elsewhere will commemorate 16 years since the civil war’s end ...
We need spaces of public memory that capture the full truth ... The report notes that at no point during the Civil War did any Confederate symbol come within 6 miles of the U.S. Capitol, but ...
Of those symbols, 685 are Confederate monuments ... the challenges that researchers called the "politics of Civil War memory," citing recent name changes of two military bases as a setback ...
Today it remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology ... “we will have a politics of Civil War memory.” [2] Indeed, Donald Trump’s racial politics are tied up with Civil War memory ...
David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001), 65. Charles Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil ...