Five years after a statue of a Confederate general was removed from the Capitol, a statue of one lesser known civil rights ...
Johns was 16 years old in 1951 when she led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, ...
An statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenage girl who protested segregation, has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, four ...
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What Remains of the Last Confederate Fort in America

Join us as we visit historic Fort Tyler in West Point, Georgia, the site of a significant yet lesser-known Civil War battle. On April 16, 1865, Union forces launched an attack on this earthen fort—one ...
The U.S. Capitol is displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated ...
The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War officially ended exactly 160 years ago, with the last shot fired June 22, 1865.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” art historian Erin Thompson examines the ways societies build and destroy monuments—and ...
Confederate statues have roiled Charlottesville since at least 2016, when Charlottesville High School student Zyahna Bryant ...
The point is that America, on the eve of its 250th birthday, is a young nation.
History can be full of surprises and, as historian Elaine Clonts Russell will confirm, research can reveal inconvenient truths that challenge long-held beliefs.
Read on to know the Quote of the Day by Abraham Lincoln, the quote’s meaning, Who is Abraham Lincoln, why he is famous, ...