American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...
A short walk from the Strand in Liverpool city centre is a commemorative plaque which seems completely out of place in the ...
Like Jimmy Jr., many young white men in the Civil War South equated military service with adult masculinity. Indeed, the Confederate ... were anxious to don uniforms, drill in the streets, march ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNAfter Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their FamiliesDuring the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...
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