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Historians discussed the Civil War and its impact on 19th-century media, including mass-circulation daily newspapers, pe… Historians discussed the 19th century press as a tool of unification and ...
How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to ...
Named for Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski, this 19th-century fort was originally constructed ... graduating from West Point. During the Civil War, it was occupied by Confederate troops ...
The Old Fort will host a garrison event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 29. This winter-themed event will feature re-enactors learning and presenting information from ...
There have been plenty of Trials of the Century in ... when the Civil War broke out. When pressed to explain why they were helping Davis, who’d been held at Fort Monroe in Virginia for nearly ...
In the century following the Irish Civil War (1922-1923), monuments were erected across the country to honour those who lost their lives and different causes for which they died. There is nothing ...
In the 160 years since, researchers have repeatedly sought to quantify the Civil War’s staggering death ... released census returns from the 19th century, as well as census records linked ...