The movement toward the abolition of the system of enslavement has been remembered as one of the great humanitarian initiatives in modern history. Occurring as it did in a world that was rent by the slaveholding republics and empires of… Read More ›
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The Bid to Save the Republican Party that Led to the Wounded Knee Massacre
From We’reHistory.org by Heather Cox Richardson On November 13, 1890, troops moved into South Dakota, a military movement that would result six weeks later in the Wounded Knee Massacre. The president sent soldiers to South Dakota, the largest movement… Read More ›
