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American History Magazine
Will Rogers meets Mussolini. What ensued was an odd friendship....
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America's Civil War Magazine
At the West Point Foundry, an ordnance genius engineered devastating cannons At the beginning of the 19th century, it was unthinkable for a nation to try to wage war or establish a viable national defense without sufficient resources to...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The LeMat was a self-contained arsenal of devastation. With a revolving cylinder that held a daunting nine rounds and a secondary barrel that contained a load of buckshot or a lead ball, the revolver had few peers; however, the traits that...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The Birth of a Nation, Fox Searchlight Photos, 120 minutes, 2016 Slavery seems to be making a comeback, in Hollywood at least. On the big screen and on television, a real American horror story is now being portrayed from the viewpoint of...
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America's Civil War Magazine
A bold rebel cavalry raid falls short at a mountain crossroads. On August 1, 1864, war arrived with a vengeance in the western Maryland town of Cumberland. Days earlier, Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early had ordered nearby communities...
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America's Civil War magazine
James F. Gibson’s photo of four Union officers in the Army of the Potomac’s Horse Artillery Brigade (left) is regarded as one of the Civil War’s most iconic images. According to the Library of Congress, it dates from June 1, 1862,...
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America's Civil War Magazine
The Union’s eight-month struggle to conquer Vicksburg, Miss., culminated in a 47-day siege that ended on July 4, 1863—one day after the Federal triumph at Gettysburg. Terrence Winschel, former chief historian at Vicksburg National...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Over the years Doug Wicklund has earned the nickname “the Gun Whisperer.” And once you meet him, you’ll know why. As a senior curator at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Va., Wicklund oversees thousands of guns that span...
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Free State of Jones, STX Entertainment, 139 minutes, 2016 Presentism, introducing present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past, can infect the best efforts of movie-makers as well as historians. Gary...
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Mag: America's Civil War Hero
American Indian Sharpshooters terrorized Confederates, especially at the Battle of the Crater....
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America's Civil War Magazine
Marines Join the Fray in the War’s First Major Battle...
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America's Civil War Magazine
With the fighting finished, Washington pulls out all the stops for a Grand Review...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Divided No More The creation of a battlefield park at Antietam was contentious and uncertain, much like the battle itself ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1867, a large cadre of dignitaries and interested parties descended on Sharpsburg, Md., a...
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America's Civil War Magazine
There was logic behind Sherman’s ruinous romp through Georgia—but was it right?...
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America's Civil War Magazine
What was it that gave this general the power to succeed when so many before him had failed?...
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America's Civil War Magazine
ALL AROUND HIM, his soldiers were ragged and hungry. Desperate attempts in the last week to feed, clothe and arm them had been thwarted at every turn. Half his troops had been captured, killed or wounded—or had just left. Enemy armies...