Tag: civil war

Separated by war, boundaries, and immigration policies they cannot control, one young Yemeni couple refuses to give up on love.

“Cree First Nations believe ‘the northern lights are dancing spirits of loved ones who have passed on.’”

An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

As the Civil War loomed, weapons — like the recently invented bowie knife and rifles that were shipped to Kansas hidden in crates labeled as bibles — became complex political symbols.

The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest has the city going up against the state of Tennessee.

Civil War monuments in the North erased an emancipated Black population. But the Sphinx looked to a new world: an integrated Africa and America.

The historians, activists, reporters, and columnists who tell the complicated and ever-changing story of their own community.

The scientist whose research could help restore stability to Somalia was abducted there in 2008, and hasn’t been heard from since.

Contemplating history, family, and today’s America, Dane A. Wisher tells the story of spreading his father’s ashes on the battlefield at Gettysburg National Park and coming to terms with his life and death.

An excerpt from ProPublica and Frontline’s investigation into how the U.S. tire and rubber company Firestone ended up partnering with warlord Charles Taylor, who was taking over Liberia during the civil war in the early 1990s.

What did the Civil War sound like?

An artist recreates Gettysburg with a lifelike cyclorama—and the painting changes how many people viewed the battle: “No person should die without seeing this cyclorama,” declared a Boston man in 1885. “It’s a duty they owe to their country.” Paul Philippoteaux’s lifelike depiction of the Battle of Gettysburg was much more than a painting. It […]

In my study of African American history, the Civil War was always something of a sideshow. Just off center stage, it could be heard dimly behind the stories of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, and Martin Luther King Jr., a shadow on the fringe. But three years ago, I picked up James McPherson’s Battle […]