‘We did win this election,’ said then-President Donald Trump at the White House early on Nov. 4, 2020, on what was still election night.
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Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election results. But the work of others, from lawmakers to judges to regular citizens, stopped him. There are cautionary lessons in that for the 2024 election.
‘The Drunkenness of Noah’ by Giovanni Bellini.
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The US Supreme Court faces a case with huge repercussions for the 2024 presidential election – and American democracy. An election law scholar explains why.
The North Carolina memorial stands in Gettysburg National Military Park on Aug. 10, 2020.
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How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
Donald Trump may be barred from holding public office due to a constitutional amendment disqualifying those who have taken part in ‘insurrection or rebellion.’
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US law actually bars former President Donald Trump from holding office ever again. The recent Georgia indictment of Trump helps make the case.
Demonstrators hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis on June 25, 2015, in Richmond, Va., after it was spray-painted with the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter.’
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The drive to remove Confederate monuments links those monuments to modern racism. An economic historian shows that the intent and effect of those monuments from inception was to perpetuate racism.
Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on an indictment against former U.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 1, 2023.
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One of the charges against Donald Trump dates back to the 1870s and was designed to give the federal government the power to ensure states held free and fair elections.
One of the exhibits of notable Black people on display at International African American Museum.
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Studies show, though, that voters don’t like all that nastiness.
(Clockwise from left): American civil war soldier Frances Hook; 19th century Dahomey women soldiers; defending a besieged German city in 1615; 18th century British soldier Hannah Snell and Union soldier Frances Clayton. Sources:
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Fighting in sieges, an army of crack female troops, cross-dressing as male soldiers: women have survived and thrived as part of the war machine. But they’re rarely included in military histories.
Dead soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg in July of 1863.
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On the 160th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg, a political scientist finds that residents of formerly Confederate states express greater support for political violence than others.
A Black man holds up a sign during a Reparations Task Force meeting in Los Angeles, California on Sept. 22, 2022.
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Former enslaved persons have never received a dime for their labor. Nor have their descendants received reparations for the legacy of slavery.
Should the descendants be paid? By whom and how much?
Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, who fought for the Union army during the Civil War, stands in uniform for a photo.
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A Southerner, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas was a racist enslaver before the Civil War. But he fought for the Union because he prioritized his oath to defend the Constitution over state interests.
More than 600,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War.
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An official proclamation issued by two Tennessee lawmakers commemorates Confederate History Month, fails to mention slavery and instead honors what it calls a “heroic struggle for states’ rights.”
Acts of secession are happening across the U.S.
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Secession talk evokes fears of a second Civil War. But one scholar says secession is already happening in the US under a variety of guises.
An illustration of a deserter being executed by a firing squad at the Federal Camp in Alexandria during the American civil war.
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South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.
General Grant stands in front of his campaign tent at his headquarters in Virginia in 1865.
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Known as the military leader who saved America, Ulysses S. Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil War.
Turkeys have always been a fixture in the holiday’s marketing.
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