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1970’s Alabama History Book Reveals Why Southerners Are Confused About The Civil War Period (IMAGES)
If you've ever wondered why the South seems confused about slavery, just look at this history book.
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Sketches of Life in a Union POW Camp, by a Confederate Prisoner
These sketches were made by Confederate prisoner Jacob Omenhausser at Point Lookout, Maryland, in 1864. The New-York Historical Society has digitized the artwork, which was preserved in the personal papers of Brigadier General James Barnes, the Union commander in charge of the district that contained Point Lookout.
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The Civil War's Effects on Beer
During the Civil War in 1862, the Lincoln administration enacted the first national excise tax on beer.
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The American Civil War: The Compromise of 1850: An Introduction
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After Three Decades, Gallagher Still Enjoys Teaching the Civil War
University of Virginia history professor Gary Gallagher said he was drawn into the Civil War by a photo of Confederate Gen. James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart.
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Why (even today) is Grant such a Polarizing Figure? | American Civil War Forums
Okay, in light of the threads going on right now, I just gotta ask. The victor at Appomattox, forced the surrender of three armies, worked his way up to the highest rank then attainable at the time. On the other hand: not perfect, wracked up a ton of causalities and had character flaws
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Restoration of site of Civil War’s largest cavalry battlefield is finished
The newly restored Fleetwood Hill, located on the Brandy Station Battlefield in Culpeper, Va., will open to the public at 10 a.m. Monday following a ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to an advance announcement by the Civil War Trust.
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Churchill Imagines How the South Won the Civil War | HistoryNet
In Winston Churchill’s fanciful alternative history, Robert E. Lee wins at Gettysburg, and Jeb Stuart prevents World War I
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You Won't Believe What the Government Spends on Confederate Graves
Taxpayers now pay more to maintain rebel graves and monuments than those honoring Union soldiers.
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Arsenic and Old Graves: Civil War-Era Cemeteries May Be Leaking Toxins
The poisonous element, once used in embalming fluids, could be contaminating drinking water as corpses rot
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Why Are These Soldiers Reading The Atlantic During a Cockfight?
A Civil War historian zooms into a plate-glass negative and finds something unexpected.
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A Photographic Requiem for America's Civil War Battlefields
Walking far-flung battlefields to picture the nation's defining tragedy in a modern light
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Watch as 13,000 Civil War Monuments Fill the U.S. Map—and Read the Chilling Inscriptions
The recent debate over the meaning of the Confederate flag has launched a broader discussion about how we commemorate the Civil War. As Jamelle Bouie w ...
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The Challenge of Contextualizing Confederate Monuments
Calls for the removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces continues at a steady clip. Yesterday, the president of the University of Texas at Austin decided to remove a monument to Jefferson…
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Book Discussion on U.S. Grant Joan Waugh talked about her book U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth
“'The Rebels Are Our Countrymen Again': U.S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox” was a program of the 35th annual summer conference of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, “The Civil War in 1865.”
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Ken Burns Made Me A Civil War Historian
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first airing of Ken Burns’s The Civil War. My original plan was to mark the occasion with a review (or series of reviews) because I have lots of opinio…
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The Split Personality of Ken Burns’s “The Civil War”
On September 7 PBS will broadcast Ken Burns’s The Civil War on what will be the 25th anniversary of its release. Burns hopes that the re-packaging of the series in ultra high-definition will …
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Poet delves into a Civil War spy's hidden history
A poem by Anaïs Duplan looks at the life of Mary Bowser, a former slave who was a Union spy during the Civil War.
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Ken Burns’s ‘Civil War’ After Dylann Roof
The PBS documentary turns 25 this year, just as the Charleston murders and the Confederate flag debate freshly exposed a nation’s racial wounds—wounds the film mostly ignores.
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Getting “Friend-Zoned” in the Civil War
At some point in a dwindling romantic relationship, most people hear or say something along the lines of: it’s not working out, but we can still be friends. Today this prophecy, which rarely amicab…
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