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All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from ... histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography ...
In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...
ABOUT 400 BOOKS WERE PULLED BEFO All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from ... histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous ...
WASHINGTON — Books ... civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's award-winning autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S ...
Carnegie Mellon University history professor Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize in history this week for her groundbreaking book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid ...
One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.
Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...
He is the youngest lieutenant commander in the Navy, and in fact the Malvern is ... Daredevil Hero of the Civil War.