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Era Archives:Modern Era

Sketch of Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery

Charging in the Dark, the Gallant Attack of These Gunners Led to the Breakthrough at Petersburg

by Robert Grandchamp8/14/20238/14/2023
Painting of Napoléon at the battle of Friedland.

In 1807 a French Officer Field-Tested an Artillery Tactic That Remained Decisive for More Than a Century

by Thomas Zacharis8/11/20237/24/2023
View of Wrangell, Alaska

Wyatt Earp May Have Met His Match in Con Man Soapy Smith’s Alaska

by Mike Coppock8/11/20236/8/2023

Mystery Ship: Can you identify this winged Quasimodo?

by Jon Guttman8/10/20238/10/2023
Soldiers on Burnside Bridge

Interview: D. Scott Hartwig / An Epic Study of America’s Bloodiest Day—Decades in the Making

by Christopher Howland8/9/20234/26/2024
b17-flying-fortress-memphis-belle

Airplane Kits Are Great—But Sometimes the Art on the Box is Even Better

by Guy Aceto8/8/20238/10/2023
1846-prussian-hussar-jacket

How the Hungarian Hussars Started a Fashion Craze

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher8/7/20238/10/2023

This Overshadowed Union Brigade Made Critical Contributions at Gettysburg

by Ethan S. Rafuse8/7/20238/7/2023
alfred-dreyfus-prison

A Look at the Dreyfus Affair: Why Was This Soldier Betrayed?

by Jon Guttman8/4/20238/10/2023
Ambrose Stevens gravesite

With This Union Soldier’s Death the NYT Claimed That ‘some most interesting chapters of the unwritten and secret history of the War’ Had Died With Him

by Frank Jastrzembski8/4/20238/4/2023

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