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The Battle of the Crater Civil War Trust
The Battle of the Crater page includes history articles, battle maps, photos, helpful web links, and recommended books for this important 1864 Civil War battle in Virginia.
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Detroit 1967
The Detroit News looks back at the social unrest in the summer of 1967
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1861 The First Battle of Bull Run Video C-SPAN.org
1861 Review: First Battle of Bull Run Adam Goodheart, author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening, talked about the First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas, held July 21, 1861. He talked about how the battle changed public perceptions of the war. He was interviewed at a portrait of General Winfield Scott in a Civil War exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw Jul 18, 1863
On this day in History, Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw on Jul 18, 1863. Learn more about what happened today on History.
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Monocacy | Civil War Trust
Our Battle of Monocacy page includes history articles, battle maps, photos, helpful web links, and recommended books for this important 1864 Civil War battle in Maryland.
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Disunion: Rashomon at Vicksburg
Did Grant win the siege, or did Pemberton lose it?
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The ATM at 50: how a hole in the wall changed the world
It all began with a newfangled bank machine in Enfield.
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American slavery: Separating fact from myth
On Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the ending of slavery in the US, a historian dispels myths about the 'peculiar institution' of slavery.
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Trial of the Sixteen
The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet authorities in Moscow in 1945. All captives were kidnapped by the NKVD secret service under a false pretext, tortured, and accused of various forms of 'illegal activity' against the Red Army.[1]
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Bath disaster: 90th anniversary of the worst school attack in American history
When people think about school tragedies and disasters, the massacres at Columbine High School in 1999 and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 immediately come to mind.Fifteen people, including the two perpetrators, died in the Columbine, Colorado inciden
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Battle of Chancellorsville begins - May 01, 1863
[Joseph Hooker's] well-executed plan placed the Army of Northern Virginia in grave danger. But Robert E. Lee’s tactical brilliance and gambler’s intuition saved him.
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John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln - Apr 14, 1865
President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” as he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next morning.
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Disunion: What Lincoln Left Behind
John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, in Washington, on the evening of April 14, 1865, and within hours, telegrams and newspapers began to deliver the news around the country
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Disunion: Remember Fort Pillow!
On April 12, 1864 — the third anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter — a Confederate force led by the brilliant and brutal Nathan Bedford Forrest attacked Union troops holding Fort Pillow, an obscure post in West Tennessee. What happened after Forrest’s men captured Fort Pillow remains one of the most notorious and controversial incidents of the Civil War.
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Disunion: The Clarion Notes of Defiance
The fort’s capitulation occurred on Saturday afternoon, after a shell hit the flagstaff....The word “surrender” was never used.
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Disunion: A Conflict’s Acoustic Shadows
Today, the 154th anniversary "of the first engagement of the Civil War, the Confederacy’s attack on Fort Sumter, we ask again whether in our supposedly post-racial, globalized, 21st-century world those now seemingly distant battles of the mid-19th century still have any relevance."
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Disunion: An American Tragedy
We cannot come to terms with the Civil War because it presents us with an unacceptable kind of self-knowledge.
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Disunion: Lt. Harleston Brings On the Brick Dust
Beneath leaden clouds that streaked across the sky over Charleston Harbor on the morning of April 12, 1861, white smoke curled from the fiery mouths of booming Southern artillery.
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Disunion: The Defenders
Among the private papers of Maj. Robert Anderson, commander of the Union garrison at Fort Sumter, is a single elegant sheet of faded lavender-blue notepaper, neatly creased where it was once folded between the gloved fingers of a Confederate adjutant.
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Fort Sumter fired upon - Apr 12, 1861
On this day in history, Fort Sumter was fired upon in 1861, beginning the American Civil War
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