What is Cold Harbor on Severance? It could be tied to this major Civil War battle
The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...
Spies or Scapegoats: Does New Evidence Exonerate the Rosenbergs?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Decades later, we’re still grappling with what ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...
The Downside to Purging ‘Disloyal’ Government Workers
The remark disgusted some Foreign Service officers, infuriated others, and displeased even those who were looking forward to the new administration.” So began what — until now — was the largest purge ...
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The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
Multiple ICE impersonation arrests made during nationwide immigration crackdown
Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs ...
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The Spy Who Exposed the Secrets of the Black Chamber, One of America’s First Code-Breaking Organizations
Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher ...