When the first inklings emerged early in 1861 that a fighting war pitting North […]
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John Brown’s Moonlight March
On a chill foggy autumn evening in 1859, abolitionist John Brown and a […]
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John Coski, Museum of the Confederacy
John Coski is the historian and library director at the Museum of the Confederacy. […]
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The South’s Last Great Victory
An alliance of the Confederacy’s eastern and western armies earned a bloody triumph at the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga.
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How the Six-Day War Sparked Forty Years of Strife
Israel’s 1967 surprise attack obliterated the Arab forces arrayed against it, and set the stage for decades of conflict and insecurity.
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A not-so-prim dissection of the war from across the pond
America’s Civil War: The Operational Battlefield 1861-1863 by Brian Holden Reid Prometheus Books, 2008 […]
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Daily Quiz for August 12, 2009
Laura Arnold, an ardent Unionist, was sister to this Confederate general.
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The Long Shadow of the March to the Sea
Sherman’s March in Myth and Memory by Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown Rowman […]
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The Cowboy Brigade’s Roosevelt Inaugural Invasion
In March 1905, Seth Bullock, onetime Deadwood sheriff, brought rough-and-ready Westerners to Washington, D.C., to ride in Teddy Roosevelt’s inaugural parade.
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Ever Heard a Real Rebel Yell?: August/September 2009
Many Union soldiers wrote about the soul-chilling yells of attacking Confederates. Thanks to the […]