The song’s origins are murky, and its lyrics border on nonsensical. In its lifetime […]
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Harvesting the Dead
In the war’s aftermath, an unprecedented campaign was launched to locate and reinter the […]
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Interview: Matt Gallman / America’s Joan of Arc
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson transcended the boundaries imposed on women in the mid-19th century. She […]
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The Civil War Today: April 2008
One Less Unidentified Gettysburg Casualty Relatives of Confederate Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery had searched […]
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Killing Jackson: At Chancellorsville, one of the Confederacy’s best fighting brigades doomed the South
In the confusion following Lee’s rout of the Union Army, members of the 18th North Carolina mistakenly fired into a party of Confederate officers.
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The Rocky Road to Reconciliation
Moves to establish friendly relations between the U.S. and postwar Vietnam were marked by 20 years of diplomatic twists and turns
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Artists | Propaganda with a Passion
Dutch cartoonist Louis Raemaekers gained international fame with his anti-German cartoons during World War […]
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Insight: Ahead of Her Time
Ella Lonn’s publications, in both quantity and topical reach, made her the most important woman in the field between the 1920s and the 1950s.
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What Effect did the 1833 Force Act have on the Civil War?
The 1833 Force Bill would have given President Jackson an “authority (?)” to use […]
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Daily Quiz for May 1, 2018
In 1933, this site became America’s first national historical park.