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WASHINGTON – What John Doar remembers most about the tumultuous civil rights movement 50 years ago is the courage of black college students who registered blacks to vote in the Deep South. "They took enormous risks," recalled Doar, then a ...
May 25, 2012 at 21:47 | Source: USA Today
During the Civil War, the clashing armies used many new technologies to try to gain an advantage. One military innovation was the balloon. Although the first balloon ascent had taken place in France in 1783 and the French army had already used ...
May 25, 2012 at 17:51 | Source: GADLING
On a frigid, moonlit night in 1860, four horse-drawn coaches pulled up at a small, two-room house in Westampton, Burlington County, and a dozen armed men got out. They were looking for Perry Simmons, a fugitive slave. But Simmons wasn't giving ...
May 28, 2012 at 13:15 | Source: Philadelphia Daily News
By CHRIS CAROLA Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Nearly 150 years after the last fusillade of the Civil War, historians, authors and museum curators are still finding new topics to explore as the nation commemorates the sesquicentennial of America's ...
May 28, 2012 at 16:43 | Source: msnbc.com
Re: “Hick’s priorities wrong,” May 20 guest commentary. Tyler Q. Houlton blames Gov. John Hickenlooper and the state’s Democratic leadership for not bringing civil unions to fruition when they were in charge of both branches of the ...
May 26, 2012 at 22:50 | Source: Denver Post
This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, May 27: Battle of Seven Pines, Va., rise of Robert E. Lee. A Union offensive near the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., triggers fierce fighting May 31, 1862, at the Battle of Seven Pines -- or ...
May 25, 2012 at 13:40 | Source: Boston Globe
The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is committed to protecting the civil rights of all individuals. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have made significant progress in expanding access to opportunity in recent ...
May 25, 2012 at 12:57 | Source: Whitehouse.gov (press release)
VALPARAISO — Dana and James Totzke took the time Saturday to attend the dedication of 21 headstones for Civil War veterans at Maplewood Cemetery. Dana Totzke said she’s always been interested in the Civil War, and the Valparaiso couple said restoring ...
May 26, 2012 at 21:24 | Source: Chicago Sun-Times
(CBS News) NEW YORK - The man charged with killing 6-year-old Etan Patz 33 years ago is spending his first weekend in jail following his surprise arrest on Thursday, but despite the apparent confession of Pedro Hernandez, not everyone is ...
May 28, 2012 at 08:22 | Source: CBS News
Brazil has become the latest country to pave the way for same-sex marriage after it approved a measure on Thursday changing the legal definition of a "civil union" to simply be between two people, without making it exclusive to a man and a woman.
May 26, 2012 at 13:53 | Source: Christian Post