Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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Civil War in Sudan
The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...
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A new museum in Texas tells the life stories of Medal of Honor recipients
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A new museum is opening in Texas that highlights the lives and service of Medal of Honor recipients from the ...
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Temple bells part of scrap metal used to fuel Japan’s war effort
In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...
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Long lost war medal returned to family
A WORLD War I medal that had wound up in a local antique shop has been returned to the soldier's descendant, after some sleuthing by the Mildura & District Historical Society. Mark Irwin bought the ...