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How was a 7-year-old a Civil War veteran? We found his grave

We returned to a small family cemetery in the Georgia woods to revisit the grave of Benjamin Williams, a Confederate veteran born in 1854. After speaking with a local historian, we learned something ...
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Sidestep: Adventures Into History on MSN

This slave cemetery kept growing even after the Civil War ended

While exploring the woods beside an old road, we stumbled onto a large plantation-era slave cemetery that stretches far beyond what we first expected. As we walked deeper, local history revealed ...
Osceola was once the kind of town people bet the future of southwest Missouri on — busy, growing, and wealthy enough to draw ...
The two Republicans are competing in a heated primary. Cornyn accused Paxton of abusing his office and legal experts said the ...
Liz Eisele McLellan, a volunteer ICE watcher monitoring the intensifying federal operations in Maine, told the Portland Press ...
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Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue Trump Admin for Murder

The Trump administration is being sued by the families of two people killed in U.S. military boat strikes. Civil rights attorneys filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court on behalf of the ...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - "This is the very first image of the modern-day Santa Claus that we know today," said Jack Stanley, looking at a giant illustration that was drawn during the Civil War by illustrator ...
Vance’s claim of an uber-status for Americans with ties to the Civil War is particularly ironic, given that more than 40% of ...
What does it mean to be an American? That question lies at the heart of a debate between Vivek Ramaswamy and Vice President ...
While LIV Golf lost Brooks Koepka this week, the league gained PGA Tour pros Byeong Hun An and Thomas Detry. A big star also re-signed. The post ‘Defining move for my future’: 2 PGA Tour pros join LIV ...
Borders are both crime scenes and crimes, with nationalism the motive. Patrick Strickland This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up ...