One observer wrote in 1861, “it almost broke my heart to see the soldiers bring armfuls of bacon and hams and throw them down upon the floor of the marble room.”
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War and Peaceniks
After their military service, these distinguished warriors did a crisp about-face on the wisdom of armed conflict.
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Book Review: Citizen Reporters / S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America, by Stephanie Gorton
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Drawing Fire: Famed Cartoonist Bill Mauldin Turns 100
“Bill Mauldin’s wild fifty-year career defied F. Scott Fitzgerald’s oft-quoted remark about there being […]
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Old Footage of Vietnam Vet Decrying Racial Injustice Goes Viral
The smooth cadence of Mississippi-born-Chicago-raised Sylvester Bracey’s voice, thought to be lost to history, […]
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Interview: Edward L. Ayers / Civil War Historian
Ayers argues that America should acknowledge the importance of emancipation with a national holiday.
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Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency
Military historian Mark Grimsley makes the startling assertion that the American civil rights movement was an insurgency.
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Spike Lee Tackles Vietnam in New Film About Vets Trying to Retrieve Remains of Fellow Soldier
Academy Award-winning director Spike Lee is no stranger to using cinema as a platform […]
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Jazzman James Reese Europe Taught White America How to Swing
After leading the Harlem Hellfighters in battle, the renowned band leader lost his life in a backstage fracas.
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An American Nazi’s Rise and Fall
George Lincoln Rockwell was the son of vaudeville comedians, served in the U.S. Navy […]