Did you know that formerly enslaved Black Americans helped to create public school education in the United States?Today, ...

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Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

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The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

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Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

In north-west Syria, more than 700 abandoned Byzantine settlements called Dead Cities, stretch across rocky hills and plains, their weathered limestone ruins featuring remnants of stone houses, ...