Ad from the Chicago Times, April 1865. This has long been my favorite ad in American history, but I didn't have any context until someone pointed me here. Too bad it was a Copperhead paper, but whatever.
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"Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house"
"Our Women and the War" Civil War nurses. Winslow Homer. From Harper’s Weekly, September 6, 1862.
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson Hamilton. You can read the historical society biography above, but we'll go ahead and expand on this a bit. Hamilton was born in.
For the latest LGM podcast, we were honored enough to have Kevin Waite of Durham University in the U.K. to talk about his new book West of Slavery: The Southern.
This is the grave of Robert Anderson. Born in 1805 near Louisville, Anderson was destined for a career in the military. His father, Richard Anderson, was the Marquis de Lafayette's aide-de-camp during the American Revolution and was a founding member of the Society of the...
I'm teaching two courses this term--Civil War and US Labor History. It's midterm day. Take these midterms. I will be grading them. No curve! HISTORY 365 MIDTERM, SPRING 2022 (for.
This is the grave of Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Born in 1813 on a plantation in Montgomery County, Maryland Maria Rosetta O'Neale, grew up in relatively comfortable circumstances. Her father was.
I had the great pleasure of talking to Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University (quite a title!) about her 2019 book Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War. This will be...
The Civil War era that is The last documented widow of a Civil War #veteran has passed. 🙏🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸 #SUVCW #CivilWarHistory #USArmy #militaryhistory #usmilitary #missouri #missourihistory pic.twitter.com/8yKl2pxHrV — SUVCW National HQ.
I don't think this is the first time I've linked to an article about just how horribly Ken Burns' The Civil War has aged, since he chose to make good.