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Review: The Shriver House Museum

by Rick Beard2/22/20175/17/2017

The Shriver House Museum 309 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, Pa. shriverhouse.org Opportunities abound to explore […]

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by Harold Holzer2/22/20175/17/2017

Ward Hill Lamon used brawn, bluster and brass knuckles to keep the president safe. […]

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A new commander helped restore the Texas Brigade’s sagging morale.

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Would the North recognize Confederate privateers as agents of a sovereign state, or hang […]

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A Monumental Lie: The Statue at ‘Bloody Angle’

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Some Gettysburg veterans cried foul when the 72nd Pennsylvania placed its statue at the […]

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The Union colonel’s own clouded hindsight has led to confusion about his 1864 heroics.

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William Tecumseh Sherman was finally perched where he wanted and could best operate by […]

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An observant clerk opined on Lee, slavery and strategy. A deep chasm runs through […]

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A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864  Chris […]

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Fierce German counterattacks came within one mile of destroying an Allied invasion in early 1944

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