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What Did the Rebel Yell Sound Like?
The U.S. civil war rebel yell was recorded by some of the vets before they passed on.
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Civil War Veterans Come Alive in Audio and Video Recordings
It is only a scrap of 86-year-old silent newsreel footage: an elderly black man named William Smallwood stands in threadbare clothes against a brick wall in Boston, performing the manual of arms with a wooden crutch. “Still ready if he’s needed,” declares a title card, presumably reflecting the old man’s sentiments. The clip is just one minute long. Smallwood provides no details of his life. Yet this bit of film is one of the rarest in existence. Not only does it capture one of the...
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Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
They called it “Angel’s Glow.”
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Notable Mississippians join chorus to change state flag
Author John Grisham, actor Morgan Freeman, legendary quarterback Archie Manning, "The Help" author Kathryn Stockett and others are calling for removal of the Confederate emblem from Mississippi's flag.
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25 years after ‘The Civil War,’ Ken Burns finally made his dream movie
New technology has given Ken Burns the tools to make a sharper, more starkly anti-war film -- and to save his documentary masterpiece.
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September 22nd 1862 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
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How the South Won the Civil War
The Union may have been victorious in battle, but American politics has been Southernized. By Nicholas Lemann.
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Mississippi Flag, a Rebel Holdout, Is in a New Fight
The Confederate battle flag is not simply flying in one hotly disputed spot at the State Capitol but occupying the upper left corner of the state flag, which has been flying since 1894.
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19th November 1863 - Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
At the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most memorable speeches in American history. In just 272 words, Lincoln brilliantly and movingly reminded a war-weary public why the Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War.
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Civil War Envelopes Are Works of Art—And Propaganda
Envelopes were relatively new for American mail in the 1860s, and printers used them to take sides. By Veronique Greenwood.
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Our Forgotten Labor Revolution
After the Civil War, workers struggled to make wage labor go the way of chattel slavery.
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Will South Carolina Spend Millions on a Fake Flag?
After the Charleston shootings, South Carolina removed the copy of a Civil War battle flag from the statehouse grounds. And that was just the beginning of this tangled tale. By Kevin M. Levin.
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How British businesses helped the Confederacy fight the American Civil War
The American Civil War devastated the US, but it also had serious consequences for the world beyond. Among them was the Lancashire cotton famine, which plunged thousands of British subjects into poverty. But the war also provided great opportunities to others outside the US who were willing to exploit them.
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Opinion: Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday
150 years ago this week, the Confederacy surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year.
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A Slice of the Confederacy in the Interior of Brazil
A city in São Paulo State that Americans fled to after the Civil War still celebrates Dixie culture, unencumbered by the debate raging in the U.S. over whether Confederate symbols promote racism.
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Remembering Sherman’s Army
The story of the Grand Review of the Union Armies in May, 1865 and of the veterans of Sherman’s March who believed that it was their campaign that helped bring the Civil War to its end. By Anne Sarah Rubin.
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A Proposal to Change the Words We Use When Talking About the Civil War
Historian Michael Landis writes that vocabulary like “compromise” or “Union” shape how we view our past
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These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States
As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor
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The True Story of the ‘Free State of Jones’
A new Hollywood movie looks at the tale of the Mississippi farmer who led a revolt against the Confederacy
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WGBH American Experience | PBS . U.S. Grant: Warrior
A revealing portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders.
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