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Union at Shiloh

American Civil War

Louisa May Alcott Goes to War

Eager to support the North, the budding author volunteered for a fledgling corps of female nurses

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A vast rebel conspiracy on the Great Lakes

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Ron Maxwell Interview – ‘Gods and Generals’ Extended Director’s Cut

A HistoryNet exclusive interview with director Ron Maxwell about the extended director's cut of his film Gods and Generals, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

American Civil War

Is It Mosby

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The Day New York Tried to Secede

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We Are All Rebels

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My Thoughts Be Bloody

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Two Virginias Two Civil Wars

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Camp Misery Excavation

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Segways appear at Fredericksburg NMP

Civil War Battles

Antietam Remembered

A veteran of Antietam spent his life collecting accounts of the war’s most horrific fighting

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What if Lee had been a Yankee?

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Civil War Memory

Harold Holzer explores revisionism and Civil War memory

Today in History: Born onJanuary 27

1756

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musical genius and composer whose works included The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute.

1850

Samuel Gompers, first President of American Federation of Labor.

1859

Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor who ruled Germany during World War I but was forced to abdicate in 1918.

1900

Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine."

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Civil War Figures

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