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Photo of men testing an electric train in Thomas Edison experimental laboratory. Menlo Park, 13th May 1880.

Zap! American Railroads Go Electric

by Richard Brownell6/20/20236/22/2023
Citizens helping soldiers on street in Richmond, Va.

12 Civilians Who Played Unusual, Outsized Roles in the Civil War

by HistoryNet Staff6/19/20235/12/2023
Painting of authorities on horseback transporting two suspects

Three Suspects Eventually Paid for This Senseless, Savage Murder Along the Snake River

by Kevin Carson6/16/20235/31/2023
Spencer patent drawing for "magazine gun"

This Civil War Weapon Changed the Face of Warfare

by Dana B. Shoaf6/15/20235/12/2023
Photo of The Drake Well Museum and Park, where in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a successful oil well and launched the modern oil industry, Titusville, Pennsylvania.

The Small Pennsylvania Town Where the US Oil Industry Started

by Heidi Campbell-Shoaf6/13/20236/13/2023
Privates Joseph Hakin and William A. Wilson

At War’s End, These Union Soldiers Thought They Were Being Mustered Out. Instead, They Found Themselves Back in the Fray… Under Custer

by Richard H. Holloway6/12/20236/15/2023
Painting, The Mount House, by William Sidney Mount.

The Racially Diverse Paintings of a 19th-Century American Artist

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Battle of the Alamo painting

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by Ron J. Jackson Jr.6/9/20236/9/2023
Sculpture of U.S. Grant, Edwin Stanton, and Abraham Lincoln

This Union Sculptor Exemplifies the Mid-19th-Century Home Decor Revolution

by Gary W. Gallagher6/8/20235/24/2023

The Sky Seemed the Limit for Union General Fitz John Porter. Then Came Second Bull Run.

by William Marvel6/7/20236/7/2023

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