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Virginia county poised to take unusual step to preserve Confederate statue
Virginia's rural Mathews County is poised to deed a small piece of the public courthouse green to a private group to protect a Confederate statue forever.
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Stripping military bases of Confederate names stirs passions | The Atlanta Voice
Civil War history casts a long shadow in Virginia, the birthplace of Confederate generals, scene of their surrender and now a crossroad of controversy over renaming military bases that honor rebel
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Civil War relics were hidden in Detroit's GAR Building
The GAR Building "was so loved" that when restoration began, "people literally came out of the woodwork” with artifacts from the Civil War.
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A freed slave became a spy. Then she took down the Confederate White House.
Mary Bowser risked execution to infiltrate Jefferson Davis’s Richmond household. But she was never caught.
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, President Ulysses S Grant
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
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Tony Horwitz, Prize-Winning Journalist and Best-Selling Author, Dies at 60
A Pulitzer Prize winner at The Wall Street Journal, he wrote the best sellers “Blue Latitudes” and “Confederates in the Attic” and seven other books.
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How These Elite Civil War Marksmen Changed the Face of Warfare
Sharpshooters wore camo and hefted state-of-the-art rifles with longer, flatter trajectory
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Unknown Until Now–The Ongoing Effort to Identify the Dead in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery
The officer stood over the freshly exhumed grave with a pencil and ledger in his hands. He told others to search the remains as he struggled to decipher the crude etching on a weath…
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A New Civil War Museum Speaks Truths in the Former Capital of the Confederacy
Against the odds, historian Christy Coleman merged two Richmond institutions, forging a new approach to reconciling with the nation's bloody past
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The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee
Historians have long debated Lee’s place in American history, and that battle continues today.
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She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.
Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains
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Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary
The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation
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Why Ulysses S. Grant’s reputation improves as other presidents lose stature
A monument at West Point can help Americans rediscover a leader whose moral example is much needed today.
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War Happens in Dark Places, Too
In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time. By Keri Leigh Merritt.
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David Brion Davis, Prizewinning Historian of Slavery, Dies at 92
In a revelatory trilogy, Professor Davis, called “one of the most influential historians of his generation,” placed slavery at the center of American history.
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Fort Sumter
The opening shot of the Civil War was fired on Fort Sumter, 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861.
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Last survivor of US slave ships discovered
A woman kidnapped from West Africa by slave traders lived until 1937 in Alabama, researchers say.
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White Southerners Said “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Was Fake News
So its author published a “key” to what’s true in the novel
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Josephine Cobb’s Discovery of a Lifetime
According to the old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. But in the case of Josephine Cobb and her 1952 discovery in a Civil War–era photograph, it’s worth exactly 272.
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This Photo of a 7-Year-Old Girl Transformed the Abolition Movement
Abolitionists used a daguerreotype of Mary Mildred Williams, a light-skinned black girl born into slavery, to win over potentially sympathetic white Americans during the 19th century.
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