No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New Orleans. When Union forces ... thousands of men over dots on the map. But when it came to holding onto the South’s largest ...

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Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation ... out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon River ...

Air freight did not blossom into a full-fledged industry until dedicated cargo airlines were established following the Second ...

Bruce R. Watkins Drive took three decades to build, and resulted in the destruction of 2,000 homes and the displacement of ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... and crab rolls. As in New Orleans and Charleston, civil rights activists have pushed to remove Confederate monuments, including ...

The American Civil Liberties Union in recent days had ... request to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The lawyers then filed an emergency petition to the Supreme ...

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War on homeless spending ... People at a homeless encampment in New Orleans that was shut down in January. Housing First programs were once the product of bipartisan consensus, but they are ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on “law and order.” Attendees appointed a committee to work with the city to ...

She was soon sold again, to a French immigrant, William Cirode, who took her to New Orleans. Cirode returned ... to work in Brandon’s house. The Civil War began, followed in 1863 by the ...

The African American Monument shows a family with broken chains at their feet, facing west toward Africa, with words by Maya ...