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The Ku Klux Klan

The hundreds of scholarly and popular works on the Ku Klux Klan published since its formation in 1866…

Communications in the Civil War

A communication revolution saw the movement of messages across the continent in ten days by Wagon train…

Memory of the Civil War

Civil War Memory has been contested since the guns fell silent in 1865, partly because issues related…

Army of The Cumberland

Union Major General William S. Rosecrans was the first commander of the Army of the Cumberland when it…

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