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17 hours ago · Civil War and final emancipation Black volunteer soldiers muster out to their first freedom, Harper's Weekly, 1866. On 16 April 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, abolishing slavery in Washington D. C. Meanwhile, the Union suddenly found itself dealing with a steady stream of escaped slaves from ...
17 hours ago · Many college and city leaders have blamed outside organizers for recent protests at universities around the country against U.S. support of Israel’s war in Gaza. On Wednesday, New York City
16 hours ago · Happy Mother's Day 2024: It began with a powerful bond between a mother and daughter. Anna Reeves Jarvis started Mother’s Day as a tribute to her mom Ann Reeves Jarvis, a human rights activist ...
17 hours ago · A girl during the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960s. Pictures of the famine caused by Nigerian blockade garnered sympathy for the Biafrans worldwide. The Nigerian Civil War was fought between Biafran secessionists of the Republic of Biafra and the Nigerian central government. From 1999 to the present day, the indigenous people of Biafra have ...
17 hours ago · A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945. The Gulag [c] [d] was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. [10] [11] [12] [9] The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph ...
- Main Administration of Camps / General Authority of Camps
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17 hours ago · From 1919 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union and its armed forces. They include acts which were committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as acts which were committed by the country's secret police, NKVD, including its Internal Troops.
17 hours ago · Eleanor of Castile. Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir to the throne following the death of his older brother Alphonso. Beginning in 1300, Edward accompanied his ...
