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Lincoln Heritage Museum in Springfield Responds to Trump’s Call for End to “Woke” Coverage in History Museums

President Trump issued a Truth Social post on Tuesday attacking the Smithsonian and many other history museums as bastions of “wokeness.” Here is what the…

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Three Civil War/Reconstruction Era Films Make Smithsonian’s 10 Best History Movies of the Decade

Smithsonian Magazine just released its list of the ten best history movies of the 2010s and it includes three films about the Civil War and…

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Posted in 13th Amendment

13th Amendment Documents and Commentary

On December 15, 1865 Sec. of State William Seward announced that the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery had been ratified and that it was now the…

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