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Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...
Books Worth Reading Again.; When a new book comes out I read an old one. -- Emerson. XVIII. Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War.* ...
Another of the new generation of Civil War students, attorney W. Steven Harrell of Perry, Ga., has found pension records showing that Sheats himself, having been freed from prison, rushed to the ...
The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...
Books: Civil Disobedience. 4 minute read. TIME. January 14, 1966 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, ...
Leadership from the Department of Defense Education Activity Europe walks into the Hodja Middle School at Incirlik Air Base, Türkiye, on 18 July, 2023.
Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its prisoners died from malnutrition, diseases and other causes.
After one ROADSHOW guest named Chris got his Civil War letters appraised at the May 2022 Nashville ROADSHOW event, appraiser Tim Prince helped Chris find a permanent home for the letters in the ...
On the 250th anniversary of Bunker Hill, it’s worth revisiting the horrors and anxieties of the conflict that birthed America ...
Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late 1940s. So far, 33 skeletons have been found near a notorious prison ...
"'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North" by Paul Taylor is on bookshelves now. (Stackpole Books) Taylor has written or edited eight books about specific areas of ...