One of its most notable residents was Sgt. George Ashby, who became New Jersey’s last surviving Civil War veteran. Ashby, a black farmer who risked everything to join the Union Army ...

Ashby, a fighter for civil rights for more than nine decades ... In the years after World War I, he was instrumental in founding the Newark Welfare Federation and Community Chest, forerunner ...

Vietnam War movies are often harrowing and uncomfortably realistic, as seen in films like Hamburger Hill, Platoon, and Full ...

Ashby, a fighter for civil rights for more than nine decades ... In the years after World War I, he was instrumental in founding the Newark Welfare Federation and Community Chest, forerunner ...

One of the people leading the charge to restore the schools' names is Mike Scheibe, a father of two students at Ashby Lee and Civil War re-enactor, who is also the spokesperson for the Coalition ...

Civil rights history merged with World War II history Wednesday when a dozen ... enemy aircraft and fuel supplies on the ground. Robert Ashby felt discriminated against because although he was ...

To examine some of these questions, we are joined now by Chris Ashby. He's a Republican election ... and we got the Civil War as a result. But with that pretty big exception, everyone, despite ...

“They ended up cheering for her.” --- New Jersey’s last surviving certified Civil War veteran was Sgt. George Ashby, an African-American who fought for the Union in Virginia with the 45th ...

“These are unique in the religious architecture of the region,” says ASOR Iraq and Syria analyst Darren Ashby. Another carving ... Since Syria’s civil war broke out in 2011, Islamic State ...

Ashby Lee is named for both Gen. Robert E. Lee, a Virginia native who commanded Confederate forces, and for Turner Ashby, a Confederate cavalry officer who was killed in battle in 1862 near ...

By Chris Cameron A Civil War-era treasure of more than 700 gold coins was unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield, a find that has at least partly vindicated legends of lost Civil War gold that have ...