The 2,700 residents of Chambon-sur-Lignon in south... ...of fascism. First came refugees from the Spanish Civil War , then the Jews, especially children, in World War II. When the Nazis took over in 1942, the practic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/28/This-French-Town-Has-Welcomed-Refugees-for-400-Years/Sam Houston was a Tennessee congressman, then Tenn... ...hen Texas governor. His retirement was due to the Civil War , because he expressed a serious foreboding about... ...ell adds. After all the battles Houston won as a war hero, and all the offices he won, Houston's polit... ...nion. Read the story of Hou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/27/Why-Sam-Houston-Texas-Hero-Opposed-the-Civil-War/During both of the Battles of Bull Run in 1861 and... ...pair’s curiosity. “Knowing this is a Civil War battlefield,” Bruwelheide says, “the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/23/Newly-Unearthed-Civil-War-Bones-Speak-Silently-to-the-Grim-Aftermath-of-Battle/While news spread through the rest of the country... ...s spread through the rest of the country that the Civil War was over, Confederates in Texas fought on for ano...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/19/12-Things-You-Might-Not-Know-About-Juneteenth/During World War II, more than 40,000 nurses served in the US mili... ...y about 500 of them over the entire course of the war were black nurses, and they had to fight to be ad... ...Nurse Corps. Powell's father had served in World War I and an ancestor had fought with the Uni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/18/The-Armys-First-Black-Nurses-Were-Relegated-to-Caring-for-Nazi-Prisoners-of-War/If you think there are a lot of protests in the Un... ...like we haven't done it before. Think back to the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War protests- those were only 50 years ago, and 50 ye... ...otest against Britain. Since then, we've seen the Civil War , the fight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/09/United-States-of-Protest-A-Citizens-Guide-to-250-Years-of-Resistance/We recently posted the story of the Clotilda, a co... ...ars, and how he built a life in America after the Civil War . Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/01/In-the-Words-of-Kossula/Once you get over how strangely natural this glimp... ...lize this is only 50 years after the start of the Civil War .[https://youtu.be/aohXOpKtns0] (YouTube link)The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/04/15/A-Trip-Through-New-York-City-in-1911/In 1844, John W. Jones escaped a plantation in Vir... ...e escape to Canada. During the waning days of the Civil War , Elmira sprouted a prison camp for captured Confe... ...ho it considered captive slaves, not prisoners of war —the Union stopped participating in prisoner... ...owy, a Board Member for t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/25/John-W-Jones-The-Runaway-Slave-Who-Buried-Nearly-3000-Confederate-Soldiers/(Image credit: Stan Shebs)The following article is... ...urchases were suspended during the Russo-Japanese War .(Image credit: diaper)Nicholas didn’t let t... ...r)Nicholas didn’t let the outbreak of World War I in 1914 stop him from buying Easter eggs, thoug... ...1914 stop him from buying Easter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/19/The-Worlds-Most-Expensive-Eggs/
