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Video: The Massacre of U.S. Colored Troops at Camp Nelson in Kentucky

PBS recently did a documentary of United States Colored Troops and Black refugees that sought refuge at the Union’s Camp Nelson in Kentucky in 1864…

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Congaree National Park May Have to Redact Three Items of Printed Material on Slavery

Congaree National Park in South Carolina is eighteen miles southeast of the state’s capital of Columbia. The park gets fewer than 150,000 visitors every year…

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Slide Show With Instructions for Tagging National Park Exhibits for Removal for Violating Executive Order

I have been posting photos for the last six weeks that Interior Department staff have identified as National Park exhibits being in violation of President…

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