"...historical context makes it a lot harder to claim that these monuments and memorials are simply 'heritage,' innocent of any racial meaning."

"This misconception that the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery, I think, comes from a misunderstanding of the Civil War." Juneteenth clarifies things.

"Black people on Juneteenth knew that masters and mistresses would not give them their freedom. They knew that they needed to make their own freedom."

"Black people on Juneteenth knew that masters and mistresses would not give them their freedom. They knew that they needed to make their own freedom."

Civil War refugee camps, where many African Americans lived just before the end of slavery, show "how African Americans made and lived out freedom on their own terms."

A 1863 guide for battlefield surgeons reveals plants with antiseptic effects. Could they help fight drug-resistant infections today?