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Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...
During a recent hands-on session with developer Rogue Factor's Hell is Us, we had the opportunity to speak with creative ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington native James Smallwood had had the old musket of another era for ...
In the summer, you can read books in a hammock, you can read them by the sea, you can read them on your porch, you can read ...
Hundreds of gold coins from the 1800s were unearthed in Kentucky, but the real story may lie in why they were buried.
While metal detecting at a known Civil War camp in Alabama, we made an incredible discovery—what appears to be a fire pit with ash dating back over 150 years! Used by both Confederate and Union forces ...
In 2025, archaeologists researching the Civil War history of Kentucky found what may be two mass graves near Simpsonville.
The discovery of Kenyan-labelled ammunition in Sudan’s conflict is deeply alarming. Arms meant for national security must never fuel regional bloodshed. Those responsible must be held accountable.
Burns uses contemporary cinematography in addition to thousands of archival photographs, paintings and newspaper images set to music to teach people about the Civil War. A number of well-known actors ...
Sheffield Castle once stood at the confluence of two rivers in the north England city, surviving for centuries until it was ...
The discovery of the mass grave has reopened old wounds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, which suffered the worst violence of ...
Making The Civil War: 25 Years Later. Special | 28m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.