Of all the sounds now vanished from the heart of old downtown Los Angeles — the songs of the Tongva, the whistles of steam locomotives, the clanging of streetcars — there’s one you’d never have ...
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At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...
The heroic images of three Confederate leaders carved into the granite face of Georgia's Stone Mountain have towered over the ...
The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...
The Wilkes-Barre Record newspaper on Oct. 16, 1903, published a lengthy two-page story about eight men from Wilkes-Barre, describing their horrific experiences as war prisoners at the Confederate ...
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Inside Fort Tyler: The Last Confederate Defense of the Civil War

Standing in silence for over 150 years, Fort Tyler was the Confederacy’s final line of defense in the closing days of the ...
The location of Battle of Toms Brook, an 1864 cavalry fight between Union and Confederate forces in Shenandoah County, was ...