civil war

Published
August 21, 2022

Hannibal Hamlin bash spotlights Lincoln’s vice president, and a town rich in 19th-century charm

A celebration Saturday in Paris Hill calls attention to the often-overlooked village where Abraham Lincoln's first vice president was born.
Published
June 13, 2022

Sanctions sought against FBI over Civil War gold dig videos

The FBI has adamantly denied it found anything. The treasure hunters say the FBI has consistently stonewalled.
Published
May 10, 2022

Maine Voices: World’s largest humanitarian crisis continues as we look elsewhere

The only way to end U.S. complicity in hundreds of thousands of Yemeni civilians’ deaths is for Congress to withdraw all U.S. support for the country’s civil war.
Published
May 5, 2022

Civil War soldier killed in 1863 given military burial ceremony in Buckfield, 159 years after his death

Pvt. Atwood Young's great-great-grandsons Philip and Jamison McAlister wanted see his memory and service to country preserved.
Published
April 18, 2022

Judge orders FBI to produce records on Civil War gold hunt

A federal judge has ordered the FBI to speed up the release of records about the agency's search for buried Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania.
Published
March 18, 2022

Treasure hunters: Did FBI destroy video of legendary Civil War gold?

Finders Keepers' owners, a father-son duo, spent years looking for the fabled 1863 shipment of Union gold that was supposedly lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
Published
August 3, 2021

Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery

An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.
Published
August 14, 2020

Maine Voices: Kamala Harris graduated from university founded by Maine man

Union Gen. Oliver Otis Howard saw education for former slaves as the best way to ensure they could be informed voters.
Published
July 8, 2020

Maine descendant of Confederate general pushes for removal of his statue

Inspired by recent protests, Alida Snow of Brunswick has gathered her family members' signatures and requested that the statue of John Brown Gordon be removed from the Georgia State Capitol grounds.
Published
June 24, 2020

Maine Voices: Portland’s ties to slavery require study and action

Maine’s largest city should acknowledge that it benefited from the labor of enslaved people elsewhere and enact protesters’ demands.