U.S. Firing Squad Executions Are Rare, but Their History Is Long
During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...
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Don’t Purge the Generals
Political interference in military leadership—especially dismissing generals and admirals based on ideological loyalty rather ...
The Talbot Spy11h
Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: The 550 Talbot Countians who fought for the United States Colored Troops
Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...
Christianity Today7h
In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...
WOLF Wilkes-Barre-Scranton on MSN1h
Exhibit at LCCC showcases African American medical contributions during Civil War era
Luzerne County Community College is hosting an exhibit which explores the often-overlooked history of African American contributions as nurses, surgeons, and ho ...
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Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed by Rwandan soldiers and Tutsi groups. When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was ...
Baltimore Times19h
Mary Elizabeth Bowser The Black Spy Who Infiltrated the Home of a Confederate Leader
Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) notes that the theme sets out to highlight and celebrate the ...
Axios Des Moines on MSN12h
Sit-ins, soldiers, a lost district: Des Moines' remarkable Black history
Flashback: Griffin and two other Black residents were denied service at Katz Drug Store in downtown Des Moines in 1948, per ...