Myanmar's earthquake death toll jumps to nearly 700 as more bodies recovered from the rubble
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to nearly 700 on Saturday as more ...
How Deborah Sampson posed as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War (and treated her own gunshot wound)
In the annals of Revolutionary War soldiers, Massachusetts was full of notable figures. But there were none quite like ...
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How Fake Whiskey Took Over The Market After The Civil War
Whiskey has a long history within the United States, and a large part of it includes fake whiskies from back before the drink ...
Fears of civil war in South Sudan stem from political rivalry between the president and his deputy
FILE - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit, left, shakes hands with Pagan Amum Okiech, leader of the Real-SPLM group ...
Myanmar’s civil war: How shifting US-Russia ties could tip balance and hand China a greater role
The resulting civil war – now into its fourth year – has seen 6,000-plus people killed, 29,000 arrested and more than 3.3 million displaced, according to estimates from the human rights group ...
Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
The decision kicked off decades of debates over discrimination and educational access in communities across the nation. The ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
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From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and beyond, one SE Minnesota family served America
For the first time in 50 years, three brothers — John J. Casseday, George Casseday and Samuel Casseday — got together. All three, along with a fourth brother (and, by the way, their father) fought in ...
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The Rise of Civil Terrorism
As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case, Vietnam. The group soon escalated to bombing government buildings and ...
These women with central Pa. ties contributed to suffrage, temperance, abolitionist movements | Column
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.
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'Civil War is too woke': Trump's anti-DEI crusade comes for Arlington National Cemetery
Critics on social media expressed disbelief over the Trump administration's latest attack on diversity, equity and inclusion ...