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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
Abolitionists played key role in the establishment of the Columbus Public Library in 1873
Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press7 天
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 ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine29 天
Civil War
It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War, Confederates ... kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution23 天
New Civil War research more fully details deaths in South, Georgia
ExploreGeorgia cemetery holds hundreds of Irish who fought ‘war to end slavery’ J. David Hacker, the historian who calculated the Civil War death toll estimate in 2011, is using the records to ...
As NC History Center in Fayetteville nears milestone, historian raises questions about mission
A historian raises concerns as the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction in Fayetteville moves toward a milestone.