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The World’s Richest Man in the First Half of the 19th Century Was a Chinese Merchant Who Lent Money to American Millionaires
If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...
Why I left the US Deep South to fight in Myanmar’s brutal civil war
Nine months ago, Azad said goodbye to his family and travelled 8,000 miles across the globe, where he swapped America’s rural ...
PBS2d
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding ...
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The coalition that challenged white supremacy in the Old South
Did you know that just decades after the Civil War, a multi-racial political alliance won control of North Carolina? In the ...
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Black Civil War Patriots Must Be Remembered on Veterans Day
Read More: What America Owes Black Veterans of World War II These warriors came to embody Black Civil War service, if not African American patriotism. As the war raged, Sergeant Major Lewis Douglass ...
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100 years of forgetting: How America’s veterans went from heroes to the forgotten
They can get their war story fix on Facebook, through group chats and via their cellphones. This fast-paced digital world leaves little room for joining traditional groups such as the VFW or the ...
Honoring a Civil War veteran who was lost to history
Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...
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Review: 'Decade of Disunion' examines political and moral questions in lead-up to Civil War
Millions of words have been written about the American Civil War and there is nothing particularly new here ... its old ...
Indiatimes6d
Stories, Red Or Blue. Message: I Hate You
The civil war can be seen either as American idealism to abolish slavery, as federal govt bringing about emancipation, or as the longstanding myth of the ‘lost cause’ that sold out white interests.
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The Battle of Antietam
On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...