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After Bull Run, Abraham Lincoln Fought a New Battle in the Civil War: Home-Front Journalism
His administration turned a blind eye to the First Amendment in the interest of national security.
Congress Changed the Way Lincoln Fought the Civil War
Radical Republicans pushed for aggressive military policy, emancipation, and Western expansion.
Black Pioneers Found Freedom on the Frontier Long Before Civil War
The Northwest Territory states were home to thousands of African Americans in the early 1800s
Civil War Scholar on the Art of Merging Museums
CEO of newly redesigned American Civil War Museum talks about creating a diverse narrative of an American crisis
Historian David Silkenat on How Civil War Soldiers Viewed Surrender
Belief that they were fighting a civilized war allowed most combatants to accept parole.
Richmond’s American Civil War Museum Brings New Life to History
Newly opened venue breaks new ground in telling stories of the people who lived […]
Northerners Fought Civil War Not to Defeat Slavery, but the ‘Slave Power’
Yankees argued that the ‘Slave Power’ had duped and even terrorized regular people into supporting secession
How the Civil War Created Coca-Cola
John Stith Pemberton, a Confederate lieutenant colonel, served in the defense of Columbia, Georgia, […]
Civil War Cosmopolitan and Joslyn Carbines
In 1861, the U.S. Army counted 4,076 muzzleloading and breechloading carbines in its inventory. […]