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In an attempt to salvage a failed Confederate agenda, John Wilkes Booth [...] »

Where does the glory of Robert Shaw and the men of the 54th Massachusetts [...] »

American Reproductions and Appropriations of Old World Monumental [...] »

The origin of the "Sherman Reservation" in Special Field Order No. 15, by [...] »

"Historian" wasn't always a career path—only in the 19th century did it [...] »

What, precisely, makes a historian, and what do they do?

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Mountains, coal, jugbands, pottery, quilts, feuds, flags, floods, labor [...] »

African Americans and Native Americans have had a long and complex [...] »

Can historians answer questions about alternate history? No, but they can [...] »

Explorations of the body, self-reference, and the entanglement of art and [...] »