The White House's history with Thanksgiving, and how the turkey pardon came to be

The history of White House Thanksgiving traditions date back more than 160 years to President Abraham Lincoln, who established the national holiday.

• Nov 25

Extended interview: Rep. Jim Clyburn

In his new book, "The First Eight," Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina tells the stories of eight Black congressmen who helped shape history after the Civil War. Clyburn joins "The Takeout" to discuss their legacy.

• Nov 21
• 26:05

Rep. Jim Clyburn talks political future, more

In 1993, Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn became the ninth African American from South Carolina to serve in Congress, but all eight who came before him were elected in the 19th century. In his new book, he tells the stories of those eight predecessors. Clyburn joins "The Takeout" to discuss this and more.

• Nov 21
• 07:08

Trump meets Syrian leader days after his removal from terrorist list

As Trump meets Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda leader is expected to tout his fight against ISIS and push for sanctions relief.

• Nov 10

Satellite imagery shows horrors in Sudan

Satellite imagery is showing details of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan amid the country's ongoing civil war.

• Nov 8
• 02:10

The plight of Sudanese civilians

Despite a U.S. campaign for peace, the Sudan civil war is raging on. Katy Crosby, senior director of U.S. policy and advocacy for Mercy Corps, joins "The Takeout" to discuss the state of the humanitarian crisis.

• Nov 7
• 04:53

Sudan's civil war rages despite Trump administration's push for peace

Explosions were reported near Sudan's capital Khartoum just hours after the RSF paramilitary forces said they agreed to a U.S.-backed truce proposal.

• Nov 7

China sentences 5 people to death over links to Myanmar fraud gangs

Chinese and Thai authorities have tried to crack down on violent criminal gangs running vast fraud operations in Myanmar's borderlands.

• Nov 4

U.N. warns of "terrible escalation" in Sudan's civil war

Sudan's RSF paramilitary forces reportedly launch an attack on the army's last stronghold in Darfur, where tens of thousands of civilians are trapped.

• Oct 27

Drone attacks appear to delay Sudan capital's airport reopening

Sudan's leaders hoped to reopen Khartoum airport after more than a year and a half to show they control the capital, but the morning brought explosions instead.

• Oct 23

Drone strike on displacement camp in Sudan reportedly kills 75 people

U.N. rights chief says Sudan's "forgotten" war is escalating, as another mass killing of civilians is reported by aid workers.

• Sep 19

Landslide wipes out entire village in war-torn Sudan, rebel group says

A remote part of Sudan's Darfur region had been a refuge for people fleeing a civil war, but it couldn't protect them from a landslide. Rebels say 1,000 people are dead, with just one survivor.

• Sep 2

South Carolina statue for Black Civil War vet

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top Union naval officer during the Civil War. Now, Smalls is being honored with a statue on the grounds of the South Carolina State House. Skyler Henry reports.

• Jul 31
• 02:41

Test to become a Gettysburg Battlefield guide

The Battle of Gettysburg raged from July 1 through July 3 in 1863, and was the turning point of the American Civil War. Some people spend years studying to become licensed guides at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, but the test they need to pass is dubbed the "toughest test in American history," as nearly 90% fail. Brook Silva-Braga met up with some of the history enthusiasts hoping to make the cut.

• Jun 28
• 08:14

New details about alleged white supremacists

There are new details about three suspected members of a violent neo-Nazi group who were arrested ahead of a pro-gun rally in Virginia. Prosecutors said the suspects were caught on camera talking about killing people and starting a civil war. Catherine Herridge reports.

• Jan 22, 2020
• 01:25

New Montgomery mayor hopes MLK Jr. is "proud"

Steven Reed made history Tuesday when he was sworn in as the first African-American mayor to lead Montgomery, Alabama, the first capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Jericka Duncan spoke with Reed about the significance.

• Nov 13, 2019
• 05:52

Detroit Juneteenth event highlights Camp Ward's role in Civil War

A Juneteenth celebration on Detroit's east side shows the important role Camp Ward played during and after the Civil War.

• Jun 9

Heads, torsos of executed 1940s prisoners found under park

The prisoners were tortured and executed during Greece's civil war era, according to historians.

• Jun 8

The story of Reconstruction

In the years following the Civil War known as Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could finally vote, and would be elected to represent Southerners in Congress. But it was a period that would be transformed into an era of segregation and Jim Crow laws, and be taught to succeeding generations as a failed political experiment. Yet, Reconstruction is now being given its due in school curriculums, and in a new PBS documentary by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Mo Rocca talks with Gates, as well as with historian Eric Foner and author Lawrence Otis Graham, about some of the most noted African American figures in the post-Civil War era.

• Apr 7, 2019
• 08:14

The folk art of Bill Traylor

Born into slavery around 1853 in rural Alabama, Bill Traylor worked as a sharecropper for nearly five decades after the Civil War and Emancipation. But in his 80s, without work and homeless in Montgomery, he took a new path, as an artist. Painting on scraps of paper or cardboard, Traylor's folk art told the story of African Americans in the Jim Crow era. Chip Reid reports on "Between Worlds," an exhibition of Traylor's work, and life, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

• Apr 7, 2019
• 04:44

Celebrating dad

How did Father's Day come about? It was thanks to a woman, Sonora Smart Dodd, who in 1909 proposed a day to celebrate fathers, like the widowed Civil War veteran who'd raised Dodd and her five brothers. But unlike Mother's Day, the idea was slow to catch on, and it would take decades for dads to get their due. Correspondent Nikki Batiste talks with retired NFL star Tony Gonzalez, a 2019 Father of the Year Award recipient, and with photographer Dave Engledow, the self-proclaimed "World's Best Father" (and he has the pictures to prove it).

• Jun 16, 2019
• 05:18

Harriet Tubman's road to freedom

Harriet Tubman, a tiny woman who could neither read nor write, pulled off superheroine-like exploits in the years before the Civil War. With the help of the Underground Railroad, she not only escaped from a Maryland plantation to freedom in the North, she went back, 13 times over 10 years, to guide more than 70 enslaved people to freedom. And during the war, she became the first American woman to lead troops into battle, near Beaufort, S.C. Martha Teichner visits historic sites that were part of Tubman's remarkable life story, and with actress Cynthia Erivo, who plays the iconic figure in a new biopic, "Harriet."

• Oct 20, 2019
• 08:27

War Orphan

During El Salvador's 1980s civil war, its government punished rebels by kidnapping their children and putting them up for adoption by foreigners. Steve Kroft travels to El Salvador with adoptee Gina Craig, a teenager living in Ohio, to reunite with her Salvadoran family.

• Nov 10, 1996
• 14:02

Starvation in Yemen

The head of the World Food Programme says 125,000 children could die in Yemen as food is blockaded from the country. Scott Pelley shows a rare look at the situation on this week's 60 Minutes.

• Nov 17, 2017
• 00:32

Risking life to save lives in Syria

A Chicago surgeon puts his life on the line to save victims of Syria's civil war in hospitals targeted by the regime. Sunday, August 5th, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

• Nov 24, 2017
• 01:34

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