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On August 10, 1862, Confederate forces committed one of the largest atrocities by Confederate forces against their own citizens. “Whereas gray-on-blue atrocities would be common during the war, Texas in 1862 and 1863 would be the scene of repeated atrocities …
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The 1890s saw thousands of Italians arriving in New Orleans, as they were brought in by the business community to replace former slave labor to work on sugar plantations. The Paris of the South was not especially welcoming to their …
Less than nine months after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Confederate war veterans Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones, and James Crowe founded the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee. The KKK chose Confederate …
Most of us think of this moment on April 9, 1865, when Robert E. Lee signed articles of surrender at Appomattox Court House. Lee, however, merely signed Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia …
Fall 1777 was a trying time for General Washington and his Continental Army. After General Howe beat Washington in the Battle of Brandywine on September 11th, he would march into the capital in Philadelphia unopposed. The Continental Congress was forced …
June 19 is now the federal holiday for Juneteenth celebrating the posting of General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas in 1865 announcing that “all slaves are free” and possess “absolute equality of personal rights.” It also is the execution …
Pontiac’s War was launched in 1763 by a confederation of Native Americans who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War. While the tribes failed to expel the British, the war led …
On March 27, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which complains that the Smithsonian Institution (particularly the National African American Museum of History and Culture) has “come under the influence …
