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New photography book sheds light on the experience of black Civil War soldiers in never-before-seen photos Book explores the role of photography in telling the story of African Americans during the US Civil War As well as soldiers, the photographs also celebrate African American surgeons and a war correspondent Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the Civil War
In the 1800s, humans were busy scurrying across the globe prying into the blank spots on the map, why? Because, of course, they were there. From the frozen poles of the Earth to its darkest jungles, we had a guy on it. Here in the United States, the transcontinental railroad had opened up the nation. But, despite nearly a century of poking around by native peoples, Spanish padres, men military, mountain and Mormon, there remained one big question mark over the terrain through which flowed the Green and the Colorado Rivers. On then-existing maps of the area between Green River Wyoming and St...
Gerald McRaney on NCIS: Los Angeles cast as Hollace Kilbride returns Sun Jan 17, 2021 at 7:30pm ET Gerald McRaney is back on the NCIS: Los Angeles cast for a new episode of the show. McRaney plays retired Navy Admiral Hollace Kilbride, a character that pops up every now and then on the NCIS spin-off. The new episode is Season 12, Episode 9 of NCIS: LA and it is called A Fait Accompli. It will air for the first time on Sunday, January 17. Get our NCIS newsletter! This will become the sixth episode that McRaney has guest-starred on the show, with his last appearance coming back in 2019 during t...
Photo Credit: Elroy Air Elroy Air, (San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) an aerospace and logistics company developing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo systems, announced on Dec. 18 that it has won a Phase 3 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with Agility Prime (Washington D.C., U.S.), a non-traditional program in the U.S. Air Force seeking to accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicles. The goals of this new contract are to fund technical demonstrations and performance validations including flights of Elroy Air’s next-generation unmann...
Sharon MacDonald Andrew Jackson Smith was born a slave in Kentucky in 1842, the probable son of a slave holder. He escaped to the Union Army, became the servant of an officer from central Illinois, and later a soldier who distinguished himself for bravery "even in the cannon’s mouth." Up from slavery That is not the only remarkable think about Smith, according to retired Illinois State University history professor Sharon MacDonald, who has written a book about the life of Andy Jackson Smith and his legacy with co-author W. Robert Beckman. It's called "Carrying the Colors: The Life And Leg...