‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die
Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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Smoke and memory: A Civil War painting endures in Minnesota’s Capitol
At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...
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American Civil War: Maps, Battlefields, and Generals
The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...
Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...
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Review: In ‘Lincoln’s Peace,’ Michael Vorenberg searches for an end date of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.