CIVIL WAR

Military historian and award-winning author Gregory Urwin will present two Civil War programs this month in Monroe.

Rare shooting scripts from "Gone with the Wind" bought in 2020 revealed writers had conflicts over how to portray slavery in the Oscar-winning film.

Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a Bowdoin College professor who became one of the great heroes of the Civil War, died on this day in history, Feb. 24, 1914.

Insane San Francisco slavery reparations scheme would take years just to count. It’s a perfect example taking ‘go woke, go broke’ strategy to an epic level.

'Nation of Victims' author Vivek Ramaswamy explains the consequences with instituting racial reparations in the United States on "America Reports."

The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown.

The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last month, Richmond, which served as the Confederacy’s capital for most of the Civil War, removed the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill and the general's remains buried beneath after a court battle. On Saturday, hundreds of people, including Confederate reenactors, gathered to pay their respects to the general at a ceremony in Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, Hill’s hometown, The Free Lance-Star reported.

While setting the record straight about the past, these essays also point to the malleability of how we think about history.

JACKSON, MI – For just $470,000, you can own a piece of Jackson history with a Civil War-era connection. The home at 1912 Fourth Street was built in 1870 by the father of Ella Merriman Sharp, the namesake of nearby Ella Sharp Park. Sharp’s father Dwight Merriman owned a successful farm that covered much of the Jackson countryside, and built the home for returning Union Col. Robert Horatio George Minty. Guests enter through the foyer, which impresses with high 11-foot ceilings and a wide archway leading to the central stairwell. To the left is the spacious great room with its coved ceilings, bay windows and gas fireplace.

JACKSON, MI – An historic Civil War-era manor for sale in Jackson has a direct connection to a nearby park’s namesake. The home at 1912 Fourth St. was built in 1870 for returning Union Col. Robert Horatio George Minty by Dwight Merriman, father of Ella Merriman Sharp. Sharp, the namesake of nearby Ella Sharp Park, was known for her community activism and for being the first female chair of the Michigan Federation’s Forestry Committee.

The city of Richmond _ the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War _ has removed its last city-owned Confederate statue.

Emancipation tells the true story of “Whipped Peter” and his escape during the US Civil War.

Rock Island Auction Company in Illinois is putting three Tiffany & Co. creations with military significance up for auction including two Civil War-era swords and a WWI naval aviator pin.

Safe to say this season hasn’t gone as planned for the Broncos and their fans.

The rarely used, Civil War-era charge of seditious conspiracy calls for up to 20 years behind bars.

Spongebob squarepants and Gary balloon flies during the 96th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan, New York City, Nov. 24. Photo: ReutersThe U.S. marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence. Among Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection on the genocide that followed. Americans were mourning this year in the wake of a pair of deadly shootings. On Saturday, an attacker opened fire in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing five people.

Spongebob squarepants and Gary balloon flies during the 96th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan, New York City, Nov. 24. Photo: ReutersThe U.S. marked the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday with traditional feasts, parades and American football, taking a moment to celebrate in a week shadowed by gun violence. Among Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection on the genocide that followed. Americans were mourning this year in the wake of a pair of deadly shootings. On Saturday, an attacker opened fire in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing five people.

"They always talk about another Civil War. I think there is going to be one," Stern said how he questioned how anyone could vote for Herschel Walker.

ANN ARBOR, MI — An old barn that has stood on a farm outside Ann Arbor since before the Civil War is getting a fresh beginning as part of a new housing development in the city. A rendering of a plaza area planned for the Veridian development in Ann Arbor with a repurposed, pre-Civil War barn at center serving as a community space and a Honey Locust Farm Stop market shown in another building to the left of it. Deconstruction of a Pre-Civil War barn at Hieber Farms off Parker and Spies roads in Washtenaw County's Freedom Township, southwest of Ann Arbor, on Oct. 24, 2022. It’s going to be really neat.”MORE FROM THE ANN ARBOR NEWS:Ann Arbor couple has unusual plan to preserve, repurpose historic Old West Side barn10 great Ann Arbor nature areas perfect for fall trail hikingAre Ann Arbor city leaders walking the talk on climate action? See where Ann Arbor residents rate city highest, lowest in 2022 surveyExperience peak fall color before it’s gone on these 10 Washtenaw County hikes

The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.

Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances.

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing that the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, India's National Ambassador to UNICEF, said the world is at a "critical point" in address to the United Nations.

MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon city employees will have a 12th paid holiday with the addition of Juneteenth, which recognizes the end of slavery in the United States. The Muskegon City Commission agreed last week to add the holiday, typically celebrated on June 19, beginning in 2023. City Hall will be closed that day and workers will have a paid day off. Adding Juneteenth as a holiday will cost the city about $70,000 per year for paid time off for employees, Interim City Manager LeighAnn Mikesell told MLive. Also on MLiveElectric vehicles explored in Muskegon where at least one will be added to city fleetMuskegon judicial candidate headed to trial for domestic assaultNegativity over Shoreline Drive road diet test addressed by Muskegon commissionersNo more Pride flag at Muskegon City Hall as commissioners enact restrictions

Ken Burns’s docuseries confronts a topic that many Americans of every political stripe prefer to avoid: responsibility.

The fort, built by runaway slaves and freed Black people for the Union, has become a flashpoint in recent years.

The historians warned President Joe Biden about the rise of totalitarianism around the world, sources told The Washington Post.

Where is the MCU heading next? Our answers lie in the pages of some Marvel's most successful comic runs.

Once upon a time in America, people were free to roam. Then came the Civil War, and in its aftermath a new crime was invented.

Laura Smith likened overturning Roe vs. Wade to the fall of the Dred Scott decision, which in 1857 denied African Americans citizenship and allowed slavery in U.S. territories. It made moot after the Civil War by the 13th and 14th amendments. She called it the moment historic, the biggest of “our lives,” and a chance to restart.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyCANTON, South Dakota—South Dakota wasn’t a state during the Civil War. Founded in 1889, it didn’t send troops into battle.But an event this summer in Canton, a small town southeast of Sioux Falls, will feature a pair of skirmishes between the Blue and the Gray. A logo for Canton Civil War Days, set for Aug. 12-14, shows both the American flag and a Confederate banner.Selwyn Jones of Gettysburg—who is the uncle of George Floyd, the Black

The 102nd United States Colored Infantry Regiment returned to Camp Ward on Saturday.

June 19 is celebrated as “Juneteenth,” in honor of one of the final acts of emancipation of slaves in the U.S. This year, June 19 falls on a Sunday, so the federal holiday – established in 2021 by President Joe Biden – will be observed on Monday, June 20. Federal offices, as well as many state and local ones, will be closed as will banks and other businesses. Biden signed orders establishing it as a federal holiday in 2021, the first new federal holiday created since Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was approved in 1983. What federal holidays remain in 2022:Juneteenth: Observed Monday, June 20Independence Day: Monday, July 4Labor Day: Monday, September 5Columbus Day: Monday, October 10Veterans’ Day: Friday, November 11Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 24Christmas Day: Observed Monday, December 26

The FBI says it recovered nothing of value at the site in Pennsylvania. But treasure hunters who led agents there think the FBI found tons of gold and cut them out of a finder's fee.

If you are looking for a way to remind your family what the holiday is really about, we gathered a list of veteran memorials you can visit throughout the state of Michigan.

GRAYLING, MI – History will come alive in Northern Michigan this summer. Wellington Farm, a 60-acre living history museum in Grayling, will open for the season on Friday, May 27. The complex typically provides visitors the opportunity to experience farm life during the Great Depression, along with hosting events. One such event, a Civil War reenactment is scheduled to take place June 3-5. Finally, Crafter’s Alley includes an operating loom house, broom shop, blacksmith shop and woodworking shop.

The band will visit Washington, D.C. from May 12 through May 16, and perform at the World War II Memorial on May 14.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was hostile during testimony in a hearing on her eligibility to run for reelection, saying she did not remember liking and making various social media posts surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year.

Greene accused an opposing lawyer of speculating and twisting her words.

Greene accused an opposing lawyer of speculating and twisting her words.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell speaks to Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe about the mounting pressure that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing after text messages his wife sent in the lead-up to the January 6th Capitol riot were made public.

Why did so many observers misjudge Putin and Zelensky?

I ended up upsetting many people and, for that, I strongly apologize.

Borneman spoke on the broad strokes of the War of 1812 as part of the Monroe County Museum System's 2022 Online Speaker Series.

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Allendale Township denied it violated First Amendment rights of those who asked to put bricks, inscribed with racial-justice messages, near a controversial Civil War statute that features a Confederate soldier. Civil rights advocates bought the bricks – to be engraved with messages such as “Black Lives Matter, Take It Down!” – for installation at the township’s “Garden of Honor.”

The Civil War is canceled. Dearborn's The Henry Ford museum announced Wednesday that it would not continue its annual Civil War re-enactment event, which is...

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The FBI claimed their 2018 dig came up empty, but treasure hunters Dennis and Kem Parada aren't so sure.

Treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania are now on the prowl for something as elusive as the buried booty itself: government records of the FBI’s excavation.

A father-son duo of Pennsylvania treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold are now on the prowl for something as elusive as the buried booty itself: government records of the FBI's excavation. Finders Keepers filed a federal lawsuit against the Justice Department over its failure to produce documents on the FBI’s search for the legendary gold, which took place nearly four years ago at a remote woodland site in northwestern Pennsylvania. The FBI has since dragged its feet on the treasure hunters' Freedom of Information Act request for records, their lawyer said Wednesday.

After the Civil War began in 1861, she repeatedly filled her mule-drawn wagon with food and other supplies and traveled to where the need was greatest. She got the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield” after tirelessly tending Union (Northern) soldiers wounded at the Battle of Cedar Mountain in Culpeper County, Virginia, in August 1862. Noting her delivery of critical supplies to an Army field hospital at midnight, surgeon James Dunn wrote: “I thought that night if heaven ever sent out [an] angel, she must be the one.”

A legal tactic used against the Ku Klux Klan is deployed against far-right groups whose members are charged with the attack on Congress.

ALLENDALE, MI – Four people are suing Allendale Township for alleged violations of the First Amendment, claiming township officials censored their free speech promoting racial justice in the ongoing battle over a controversial Civil War statue featuring a Confederate soldier. According to the lawsuit filed Monday, Dec. 6, the four individuals described as civil rights advocates had purchased bricks to be installed in the township’s Garden of Honor where the statue sits with the intention of having them engraved with messages such as “Black Lives Matter.”

Beaufort, S.C., offers beauty and history to rival Charleston — with fewer tourists.

The 19th-century African American writer Charles Chesnutt’s enduring story of ingenuity and hardship

The first proclamation declaring Thanksgiving as a national day of remembrance was issued by Abraham Lincoln. Tom Emery has this history piece.

The comments by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) come one day after the House censured Gosar for tweeting an anime video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging swords at President Biden.

Stephen Oates has died after a life that saw him become an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Clara Barton, William Faulkner and others.

An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been “stolen during the Civil War” while en route to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, and was “now concealed in an underground cave” in northwestern Pennsylvania.

FILE-This Sept. 20, 2018 file photo, Dennis Parada, right, and his son Kem Parada stand at the site of the FBI's dig for Civil War-era gold in Dents Run, Pennsylvania. Government emails released under court order show that FBI agents were looking for gold when they excavated Dent's Run in 2018, though the FBI says that nothing was found. FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold — possibly tons of it — when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case. The legal maneuvering generated emails between Newton and Audrey Miner, chief lawyer for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. It's indicative, it's suggestive, but it can’t prove it.”To prove it, the FBI needed to dig.

Some leftists have used similar language, which Republicans have likened to advocating a new civil war. “At the time of the Civil War, this took the form of Southern white men angry at the idea that the federal government would interfere with their right to own Black slaves. “The favorite son of this city was murdered because of a civil war as he was president. She resigned after she was barraged by calls from Trump supporters, some of whom demanded a military coup to keep Trump in office “no matter what it takes." Silber, the Civil War historian, said she is worried the attack on the Capitol wasn't the last stand for enraged Trump supporters.

LANSING – Many law enforcement agencies -- local and federal -- are investigating the group behind the terrorism plot to kidnap Gov. While they’re affiliate with the Michigan Militia, the Wolverine Watchmen is its own group with its own goals. The Wolverine Watchmen formed very recently. The boogaloo movement is a loosely organized far-right extremist movement with members advocating for a second Civil War. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the current boogaloo movement was first noticed by extremism researchers in 2019.

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Democratic lawmakers and others urged official removal of Confederate monuments at the center of a politically fraught national debate, saying Tuesday that slow action was leading protesters to try to topple statues of defenders of slavery themselves. A descendant of Confederate military commander Robert E. Lee was among those joining Black historians at a hearing of the House subcommittee on national parks, forests and public lands to urge passage of legislation addressing Confederate statues at national parks and other federal sites. One of the bills would remove a statue of Lee erected this century at the battlefield of Antietam, the site of the deadliest day of fighting in the Civil War. Robert W. Lee IV, a descendant of the Souths military leader in the Civil War, cited his forebears testimony before Congress after the Civil War as evidence of the Confederate leader's unfitness for commemorative monuments. Trump increasingly has come out in defense of the Confederate statues and other historical tributes to the Civil Wars defeated side.

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2019 file photo a Confederate soldier monument stands at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. A Confederate monument thats been a divisive symbol at the University of Mississippi was being removed Tuesday from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus. Its not going to create a shrine to the Confederacy, University of Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Boyce told The Associated Press on June 24 at the state Capitol. Since 2016, the university has installed plaques to provide historical context about the Confederate monument and about slaves who built some campus buildings before the Civil War. A plaque installed at the base of the Confederate statue says such monuments were built across the South decades after the Civil War, at a time that aging Confederate veterans were dying.

FILE - In this Friday, July 3, 2020, file photo, Civil War reenactors marching with Confederate battle flags during their reenactment of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Public pressure amid protests over racial inequality forced Mississippi to furl its Confederate-inspired state flag for good, yet Georgias flag is based on another Confederate design and lives on. The Confederate States of America had three different national flags during its brief existence from 1861 through 1865, and multiple other flags were used by individual states, army and naval groups. CONFEDERATE NATIONAL FLAGS LARGELY FORGOTTENWhile the battle flag is recognized almost universally as the Confederate flag, its association with hate and white supremacy has taken a toll. Meanwhile, Confederate national flags like the Stainless Banner and the Blood-Stained Banner" or the unofficial Bonnie Blue Flag are virtually unknown to many.

(Emily Hamer/Wisconsin State Journal via AP File)MADISON, Wis. In this college town that considers itself a bastion of progressive politics and inclusion, race relations are really a tale of two cities. Madison is a wonderful place, but it is a tale of two cities, said former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray, who is Black. Heg was an Norwegian immigrant who became an anti-slavery activist and a colonel in the 15th Wisconsin Regiment. The Forward statue represented Wisconsin at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He called toppling the statues a setback for the Black rights movement but said there's no denying racial inequities in Madison.

He also left behind pictures of himself holding the gun used in the killings, posing at historic Civil War and African American sites and holding the Confederate flag. Outraged political leaders came together and overwhelmingly voted to take down a Confederate flag that flew near a monument to Confederate soldiers on the Statehouse lawn. The law protects all historical monuments and names of buildings, requiring a two-thirds vote from the state General Assembly to make any changes. The president of the University of South Carolina wants lawmakers to let the school remove the name of J. Marion Sims from a women's dorm. The time has come to take down the monuments that honor the evil that was done in the name of Charleston, in the name of South Carolina," Rivers said Tuesday at the foot of Calhoun's statue.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is calling to have the statues of Confederates removed from the Capitol, though she cannot do so unilaterally. Each of the 50 states is allowed by law to place two statues in the collection. LOUISIANAEdward Douglass White (1955) -- He was a teenager when he enlisted in the Confederate army, only to be captured a short time later. SOUTH CAROLINAWade Hampton (1929) -- A state lawmaker before the war, he rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate army. WEST VIRGINIAJohn Kenna (1901) -- He was wounded at 16 while serving in the Confederate army and would later become a congressman and senator.

The NFL plans to recognize Juneteenth as a league holiday. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made the announcement to league employees on Friday in an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Juneteenth is considered the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Colin Kaepernick began raising awareness for these problems by kneeling during the national anthem in 2016. Juneteenth not only marks the end of slavery in the United States, but it also symbolizes freedom a freedom that was delayed, and brutally resisted; and though decades of progress followed, a freedom for which we must continue to fight.___More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL

NEW YORK HBO Max has temporarily removed Gone With the Wind from its streaming library in order to add historical context to the 1939 film long criticized for romanticizing slavery and the Civil War-era South. Protests in the wake of George Floyd's death have forced entertainment companies to grapple with the appropriateness of both current and past productions. The BBC also removed episodes of Little Britain," a comedy series that featured a character in blackface, from its streaming service. "These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible, said an HBO Max spokesman in a statement. Gone With the Wind has long been denounced for featuring slave characters who remain loyal to their former owners after the abolition of slavery.

MONROE, Mich. Dozens of people are saying its beyond time for the statue of Civil War commander General Armstrong Custer in Monroe to finally come down. All of us feel like if this is up then we have no justice, we have no peace at all, honestly. Like, why is this up, praising this guy when we have no justice for our colors, said one Monroe woman. Everybody deserves Justice. Everybody deserves peace.

With the temperature up near eighty, it finally feels like summer is just around the corner.

Remnants of a Civil War battle in Independence, Missouri, were uncovered earlier this week by a local tree service that deemed an old tree needed to be taken apart for safety purposes. Jeff Eastham of Jeffs Tree Services said he was sent to the home because he was told the tree posed a danger to the rest of the local landscape. In fact, homeowner Randall Pratt said this isnt the first time a cannonball was found on the property. During another renovation in 1980, the family found a cannonball lodged inside the structure of the house. It was a part of the tree for at least 157 years and it will stay with the house, he said.

The letters on the double-arched gate to Jefferson Davis Memorial Park at Fort Monroe were removed Friday. The name of Confederate President Jefferson Davis has been removed from an arch at the Fort Monroe historic site in Hampton, Virginia. "Fort Monroe is where the first enslaved Africans arrived on our shores in 1619," Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam tweeted on Friday -- the same day letters spelling out "Jefferson Davis Memorial Park" were taken down by workers. Oder told WAVY-TV the letters will be preserved as part of a Jefferson Davis exhibit at the Casement Museum on the site.