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How the American Civil War Started
The Kings and Generals animated documentary series launches its new chapter on the American Civil War with an in-depth look ...
The Battle of Sullivan’s Island was a key victory in South Carolina history that took place just days before the country ...
Minority enclaves risk racism, exclusion, and impractical isolationTrue secession must be based on shared values, not ...
In 1971, as the Addis Ababa Agreement of 1972 was being negotiated to end the First Sudanese Civil War, President Jaffar Numeiry made a telling decision. Instead of attending the talks himself, he ...
That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...
On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...
Regional animosities have existed in Illinois since before it was admitted to the Union in 1818 as the 21st state, and only ...
The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo says Gowon's claim that the Biafran War wasn't anti-Igbo is a distortion of painful historical truths.
The first recorded translation of the U.S. anthem, into German, was done by schoolteacher, choir director and future New ...
Today (On July 4, 2025) the United States of America turns 250. It is a monumental anniversary—marking not merely the passage of time, but the endurance of a radical experiment in democracy that began ...
If the competing territorial claims between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in China and the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan were represented as a Venn diagram, the central overlap would ...