The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel6h
Fight over the Royal Gorge helped determine Colorado’s railroad future
The first confrontation in the Royal Gorge Railroad War occurred not in the Royal Gorge, but near the top of Raton Pass in ...
The Gettysburg Times8h
Factors that led to the failure of the Confederacy
The January 2025 meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg featured Dr. Christian B. Keller speaking to his book, “Southern Strategies: Why The Confederacy Failed,” published in 2021 ...
Alaska Dispatch News8h
How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
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Underground Railroad history comes through Bedford and Blair Counties
The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...
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The History of Slavery in the United States From Beginning to End
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...
AgNet West23h
American Agriculture History Minute: Wheat Production Grows with the Railroad
Wheat production grew as new railroads connected farms and markets. In between 1875 and 1890, bonanza farms, as they were called, were created especially in the Red River Valley. They were funded by ...