In the 1800s, segregated Dallas wouldn’t allow its Black residents to be buried next to their white neighbors, so the city was forced to find a final resting place for its formerly enslaved residents.
In an unexpected move, Israeli forces carried out a direct search operation to recover the body of the last Israeli hostage ...
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A pre-Civil War general’s grave survived 166 years

Today we visit a historic Georgia city cemetery to find the grave of General Henry H. Lowe, who died in 1854 and played a major role in early Georgia politics, militia leadership, and plantation ...
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This slave cemetery kept growing even after the Civil War ended

While exploring the woods beside an old road, we stumbled onto a large plantation-era slave cemetery that stretches far beyond what we first expected. As we walked deeper, local history revealed ...
Little is known about the two sets of skeletal remains uncovered during an excavation in downtown Frederick last week — only ...
Minneapolis residents say they feel besieged under what some are calling a fascist occupation. Thousands of Immigration and ...
Three Confederate monuments may soon disappear from Virginia’s State Capitol.
With Gaza's vital Rafah border crossing expected to soon reopen, residents of the war-shattered territory are hoping to ...
By JULIA FRANKEL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The announcement that the remains of the last hostage ...
Andrew Craig was born into slavery to a family that owned a farm modeled on a southern plantation envisioned by George ...
There was a time during Chuck Maulden’s second year in his first job out of college when he thought he might not survive to ...