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Era Archives:1800s

Harrington & Richardson five-shot hammerless revolver

The ‘Lemon Squeezer’ Proved a Popular Backup Gun

by George Layman12/15/202311/2/2023
Sharps rifle and carbine

Sharps Breechloaders Were Simple and Sturdy Guns, Trusted in the North and the South

by Dana B. Shoaf12/14/202311/1/2023
Georgians at Burnside Bridge

Observations on the Carnage of a Dreadful Day at Sharpsburg

by Robert Lee Hodge12/11/202312/14/2023
ruins of foundation in St. Thomas, Nevada

Hoover Dam Damned This Nevada Ghost Town

by Engrid Barnett12/8/202311/2/2023
Patriotic envelopes with pro-Union messages

Civil War–Era Envelopes Bore Patriotic Messages—On the Outside

by Gary W. Gallagher12/7/20234/29/2024
Photo of tourists watching Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone, a Crown Jewel of Nature

by Carl Zebrowski12/5/202312/5/2023
uss-somers-mutiny

How Mutiny Aboard the USS Somers Helped Birth the US Naval Academy

by Diana Stancy Correll12/4/20233/15/2024
rorkes-drift-battle

At Rorke’s Drift, 150 Men Were Left Behind To Face Thousands Of Warriors

by Mark Simner11/29/202311/29/2023
This cartoon pokes fun at Martin Van Buren’s inability to build a Free Soil Party coalition during the 1848 presidential run.

Leap Back on the Political Merry-Go-Round

by Richard Brookhiser11/28/20233/31/2024
Big Chair, Thomasville, N.C.

This North Carolina Factory Town Kept Busy Supplying Boots to the Confederate Army

by Melissa A. Winn11/27/202311/20/2023

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