History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Open Fire http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Antietam Battlefield’s Miller farmhouse gets a facelift http://www.historynet.com/antietam-battlefield%e2%80%99s-miller-farmhouse-gets-a-facelift.htm http://www.historynet.com/antietam-battlefield%e2%80%99s-miller-farmhouse-gets-a-facelift.htm#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:52:40 +0000 Marty Jones http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684031 Halfway through a five-year renovation of the historic Miller farmhouse at Antietam National Battlefield, the Park Ser­vice preservation teams have been offering a handful of sneak previews of their handiwork.

David Miller's cornfield became an icon of the battlefield, after …

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Preservationists claimed victory in Gettysburg this spring when for the second time in five years, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board rejected plans for a casino on the fringes of Gettysburg National Military Park.…

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The famed filmmaking Scott brothers—Ridley (Gladiator; Black Hawk Down; American Gangster) and Tony (Unstop­pable; Man on Fire; Top Gun)—have teamed with the cable channel History to produce Gettysburg, …

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Rather than face what would likely have been an image-bruising court fight, Walmart has abandoned plans to build a retail supercenter on the doorstep of the Wilderness battlefield in central Virginia.

"This project has been controversial, …

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As if the indignity of losing at Fredericksburg were not enough, 100,000 Union soldiers (and 90,000 of their counterparts from the South) settled in to spend the winter along the banks of Virginia's …

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Beginning in June, the Fredericksburg and …

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In its annual report History Under Siege­, CWPT identified …

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View the patent for artifical limbs at the exhibit. National …

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Fundraising has begun for the preservation of a crucial two-acre parcel on the Gettys­burg battlefield. The property, originally part of the historic Philip Snyder farm, lies along the Emmitsburg Road and is entirely …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/emmitsburg-road-preservation-campaign.htm/feed 0 Rebel bankroller’s grave discovered in England http://www.historynet.com/rebel-bankroller%e2%80%99s-grave-discovered-in-england.htm http://www.historynet.com/rebel-bankroller%e2%80%99s-grave-discovered-in-england.htm#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:21:41 +0000 smock http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681842 When American academic Thomas E. Sebrell II recently led several students through London's historic Kensal Green cemetery—armed with clippers, shears and historical records—the underbrush and thorns they slogged through tore both clothing and skin. Yet the group pressed on in …

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