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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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, ...
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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 ...
When formerly enslaved people relocated to and made their homes in Austin at the end of the Civil War
Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.
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Wilson County student at MTSU researching historic post-Civil War neighborhood
An MTSU student from Mt. Juliet joined fellow classmates in research at one of Nashville’s first post-Civil War Black ...
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Dayton site to be included on Civil War Trail
Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...
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Bill Bruford on the "civil war" at the heart of Yes's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
Former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford has spoken about the discontent that marked the former's induction into the ...