Civil War

<p><span class="deck">He wrote down everything he saw in a career that stretched from the Civil War well into this century.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization, but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A scholar searches across two centuries to discover the main engine of our government’s growth, and reaches a controversial conclusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">This isn’t the first time a Virginia governor has found himself embroiled in controversy about the commercialization of a Civil War site.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Union Army’s siege ended in 1865, but it still has a grip on Petersburg, Virginia.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">William Fletcher went off to war with surprisingly few illusions, and nothing he saw there gave him new ones.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> DRAWN WITH THE SWORD</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> MOTHERS OF INVENTION<br />
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">COMING TO TERMS WITH THE MOST COMPELLING AND MYSTERIOUS OF CIVIL WAR HEROES</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A shot fired in the last days of the Civil War has kept its power to wound.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Finding African-American history in the cradle of the Confederacy</span></p>

<p>It turns out that my great-grandfather fought to free my daughter.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The Old South has survived along Georgia’s Antebellum Trail, where the Civil War seems to have happened only yesterday.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A LEADING CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN CHANGES ONE SMALL HAPPENSTANCE—WHICH IN TURN CHANGES EVERYTHING</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When mudslinging in Congress led to actual bloodshed</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Is it a symbol of a brave past or a banner of treason? And is there perhaps another Southern standard to be raised?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How two devotees of the American flag and one Supreme Court justice shaped the story of a border town and the nation</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> RESEARCHERS PREPARE TO LOOK INSIDE THE LONG-BURIED CONFEDERATE SUBMARINE</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Richard Dobbins has made it his mission to gather every single record of every single soldier into one huge, organized, searchable internet database.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A five-day uprising by Irish immigrants in New York was ostensibly against the draft, but was in fact a chance for Irish mobs to attack and murder as many black people as possible.</span></p>

<p>A federal tariff in 1828 that favored northern industry infuriated southerners and played a role in eventual secession.</p>

<p>From "The General" to "Gettysburg," spanning 66 years, these movies have done the best to capture America's worst war.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Humvees with Humps</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of Lee’s greatest lieutenants is slowly winning his reputation back after losing it for daring to criticize his boss.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The New York Stock Exchange plans to modernize by merging with a new competitor, just as it did in 1869.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Trying to understand the Civil War’s ugliest incident</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Would the disastrous Reconstruction era have taken a different course?</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Not until the Civil War was about over did the U.S. Navy manage to put a halt to the South’s imports</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The memoirs of Civil War correspondent SYLVANUS CADWALLADER were recently discovered and edited by Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas</span></p>

<p>Archaeologists in Georgia have found the location of the prison that served as an overflow facility for Andersonville.</p>

<p>South Carolina severed ties with the Union not out of concern for states' rights but because of slavery</p>

<p>In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence.</p>

<p>The highly lucrative cotton crop of 1860 emboldened the South to challenge the economic powerhouse of the North</p>

<p>After Fort Sumter fell, a secessionist mob in Baltimore rioted and blocked the passage of Federal troops to Washington, D.C</p>