American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry […]
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Can’t Tell a Lie About GW? History Does
Forget the myths and give the first president his due
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American History Today: August 2007
Slavery Still Haunts Legislatures, Universities, Politicians—and Descendants Slavery, that “peculiar institution” of old, continues […]
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Walking Boston’s Historic Freedom Trail
Boston, known as The Cradle of Liberty, played a central role in the winning […]
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Rethinking the Revolution
Americans remember the Civil War for its unsparing brutality. But was our fight for […]
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American History Headlines- December 2007
Gettysburg Cyclorama Comes Back to Life Out of public view since 2005, Gettysburg’s famed […]
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Intrepid Mariners
Cherbourg, France, was the final crossroads for the frequently intersecting paths of Raphael Semmes and John Winslow—and the final battle for one of the war’s most famous ships.
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The Art of Ironclads
Pieces from the USS Monitor Center’s collection illustrate that the famous Monitor-Virginia duel heralded a sea change in naval art as well as technology.
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CWT Book Review: Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
Slavery, Resistance, Freedom edited by Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock, Oxford University Press, 2007, […]
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West Point’s Other Training Ground
The academy taught many of the Civil War’s most famous figures to be generals, […]