Terry resigned as chief justice and joined the Confederacy ... the Civil War began in 1861, Starr King helped California raise $1.2 million, more than any state in the union, for the U.S. Sanitary ...

Grab a map from a docent and ... of much larger cities. In 1861, following Virginia's secession from the Union, Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy. The city's capitol building ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Two lawsuits take aim at the high court's 2021 decision that the state's next congressional maps must make the least amount ...

Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The ...

South Salem baseball player Sawyer Nelson is the winner of the Maps Credit Union high school boys Athlete of the Week, as voted by Statesman Journal readers. A junior shortstop, Nelson went 4 for ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June ...

What did Mary Boykin Chesnut say about the Battle in her “diary?” Explain. What did the arrival of Union troops mean for the area’s “enslaved people?” ...

Brenda is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Americans have maintained particular admiration for George Washington, ...

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