Reconstruction Era of the United States

Police officers watch as demonstrators protest the death of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 12, 2014.

As suburban St. Louis boils, the city confronts a difficult history with race

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Racial tensions are not new in St. Louis, but they’ve certainly been put on international display the past few days. But on local professor says the current crisis has little change of igniting long-term change.Racial tensions are not new in St. Louis, but they’ve certainly been put on international display the past few days. But on local professor says the current crisis has little change of igniting long-term change.

Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia.

How wars end part II: the American Civil War

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John Hope Franklin’s literary legacy: A chronicle of the African-American experience

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Using Food to Tell the Story of War

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