When American academic Thomas E. Sebrell II recently led several students through London’s historic […]
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Irvin McDowell: The Most Unpopular Man in America
Two words came to define McDowell’s military prowess for the general’s most critical
superiors: ‘Bull’ and ‘Run’
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Ed Bearss, Former NPS Chief Historian
For Ed Bearss, the past is prologue. Recalling the National Park Service’s response to […]
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Daily Quiz for January 27, 2010
Napoleon III bore this relationship to Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte).
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The Impending Crisis Of The South By Hinton R. Helper
Hinton R Helper’s book “The Impending Crisis Of The South: How to Meet It,” published in 1857, was a call for the confederate south to abandon slave and adopt industrialization.
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Bill Howell, Virginia House Speaker
Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell and the Virginia Civil War sesquicentennial commission remember the […]
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The Other Battle of Calcasieu Pass
Defenseless Yankees were no match for a girl named Babette.
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Gettysburg maps sesquicentennial strategy
Civil War battle strategy can be tricky enough itself to convey, but that wasn’t what was giving German journalist Hermann Schmid problems in Gettysburg last fall.
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Civil War Fight Songs
‘Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds’