Atlanta will soon add some vivid lessons about the South’s racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments amid the ongoing national debate over Confederate statues. In Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, the 1911 Peace Monument commemorating post-Civil War reconciliation ...

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History buffs now have a new treasure trove of firsthand documents in St. Louis city. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and St. Louis Circuit Clerk Mariano Favazza announced Wednesday that more than 11,200 old cases from St. Louis Circuit Court are now available to the public. The case files cover the Civil War era, 1866 through 1868. Pictured is Favazza and Probate Court manager Sandra Lombardo touring the record storage facility at the Missouri State Archives in the Globe-Democrat Building, 710 N. Tucker.

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