They packed churches and meeting halls and celebrated the news. In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North ...

At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax laws, obtaining a medical degree was very easy; one only had to apprentice with ... variety of procedures as they were actively engaged in conflicts.

Richard Re, A Persisting Evil: The Global Problem of Slavery, Harvard International Review, 2002 There are more slaves than ever before, but they are ... before the Civil War, the average slave ...

They also noted that mortality rates varied dramatically by state in the South—Louisiana, for example, had a rate of 19%. More information: Joan Barceló et al, New Estimates of US Civil War ...

More than 44,000 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza as of early December ... On a "Day of Disruption" in May, demonstrators held up Israeli flags and photos of those still being held hostage ...

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is knowledge that had been ...

They are vectors ... memorialize the Second World War and its stories. One example are the photographs taken by Miller. LEE examines Miller’s life and career before and after the Second World ...

His family had been in power for more than ... The Assad family’s autocratic rule and the civil war created interwoven challenges for Syrian society. They will now need to be addressed to ...

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

Children born to slaves would be educated at public expense and when they reached adulthood freed ... or Central America. Before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln served on the Board of Managers ...