From History New Network by J.D. Dickey author of Rising in Flames: Sherman’s March and the Fight for a New Nation: Although now more than a century and a half in the past, the Civil War is a subject that… Read More ›
American Civil War
The International Vision of John Willis Menard, First African-American Elected to Congress Read
From the Smithsonianmag.com by Lorraine Boissoneault: In July 1863, months after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a young African-American man from Illinois boarded a small ship in New York City and headed for Belize City, in what was then… Read More ›