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Explain how technological developments, including the cotton gin and railroads, had an impact on Georgia's growth. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states' rights, nullification, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia…
Oct 18, 2026 at 12:07 PM EDT New maps show how the U.S. Army plans to reinstall a controversial Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, nearly three years after it was removed under a congressional mandate. The Army presented its final design plans to…
The memorial was unveiled on 9 October during Black History Month to mark one of the largest recorded arrivals of Black people in Britain prior to the Windrush era. Its sudden disappearance has transformed a celebratory moment of historical rediscovery into…
A Reflection on America’s Revolutionary Beginnings In “Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution,” Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G … Dr. Cynthia Alease Smith I don't write "here's my opinion, let me persuade you." I…
On Sept. 20, 1758, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born in Saint-Domingue. He became a leading figure in the Haitian Revolution, helped defeat French forces and declared Haiti’s independence in 1804. Editor’s note: This story is part of our “Today in History” series, where The…
Editor’s note: This story is part of our “Today in History” series, where The Haitian Times revisits pivotal moments that shaped Haiti and its diaspora. On Oct. 17, 1806, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s first head of state after independence, was assassinated near Pont-Rouge,…
King Charles faces renewed calls for Britain to confront its colonial history as he prepares to visit the Caribbean, where governments and campaigners continue to demand reparations for slavery. A historical speech by Winston Churchill, delivered in London in 1937, acknowledged…
News and Information Media for the Public Churchill delivered the address at the West India Committee dinner at London's Dorchester Hotel on July 20, 1937. According to Peter Hulme, an emeritus professor of literature at the University of Essex who reconstructed the…
These prisoners—all of them Black, most of them minors, including Biddy’s three daughters—were some of the first inmates of what would become the largest prison system in the country. They found themselves there not because they had broken…
Churchill delivered the speech at the West India Committee dinner at London's Dorchester Hotel on July 20, 1937. Peter Hulme, an emeritus professor of literature at the University of Essex, reconstructed the speech's history and highlighted its acknowledgment of the economic contribution…