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The Names of 1.8 Million Emancipated Slaves Are Now Searchable in the World’s Largest Genealogical Database, Helping African Americans Find Lost Ancestors | Open Culture

January 5, 2020January 23, 2020African American History, Reconstruction ...

The successes of the Freedman’s Bureau, initiated by Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and first administered under Oliver Howard’s War Department, are all the more remarkable considering the intense popular and political opposition to the agency. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Under Lincoln’s successor, impeached Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson, the Bureau at times became a hostile entity to the […]

HBO’s Confederate will depict alternate timeline where south won US civil war | The Guardian

July 20, 2017African American History, Black History ...

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss will write and produce the series, which takes place in the lead-up to a third American civil war.

How the American Civil War Built Egypt’s Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever

August 3, 2016Africa, African American History ...

The battle between the U.S. and the Confederacy affected global trade in astonishing ways

Juneteenth: Black America’s Independence Day

May 31, 2016June 2, 2017African American Art, African American Literature ...

“On this day 150 years ago, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the slaves of Galveston, Texas finally received word that the Civil War was over.