Ongoing special coverage of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War
Do you know your Civil War history?
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Columnist John Kelly quizzed cherry blossom visitors on their American Civil War history to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, which took place at...?
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- Frank Williams:When the war started, it was going to be a short one. What happened?
- John Marszalek: When the war started, it was going to be a short one. What happened?
- Scott Hartwig: When the war started, it was going to be a short one. What happened?
- Tweeting the Civil War: The military buildup continues
- Fort Sumter’s fateful moment
- Alexandria’s Civil War fate
- West Virginia: The state that said no
- Early in war, death an abstract notion
- The Civil War and memory
- Traces of the Confederacy in Washington
- At the onset of war, a gallery of characters
- John Kelly’s Civil War quiz
- Newly found documents of Walt Whitman unveiled
- Press reports of the war
Timeline: Fury unleashed
Years of built up tension are finally released when the opening shots of the Civil War are fired on Fort Sumter.
Video: Walt Whitman's Civil War records unveiled
How do you explain the fury of city residents during the Baltimore Riots of April 19, 1861?
"Passions ran deep with the Baltimore “rowdies” prior to their attack on the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment..."
Frank Williams
Going Out Guide: Civil War events
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From battlefields to exhibitions, these events are as close as you’ll get to the Civil War.
Essays and Opinions
- Dispelling the myth of Robert E. Lee
- Forget Yuri Gagarin! A Civil War primer for Fort Sumter’s 150th Anniversary
- 150 years later we’re still fighting the Civil War
- Should African Americans care about the Civil War?
- Five myths about why the South seceded
- The Civil War Flag Flap
- E.J. Dionne Jr.: Don’t spin the Civil War
- Video chat transcript: Ken Burns on Civil War anniversary
- Graphic: Top causes of Civil War
- The right to be wrong
- Running scared on Confederate history
- The Civil War taught us to fight for the right to be wrong
- The myth of the black Confederates
- The dodgy world of Southern history
- Truth can get lost in fights over Civil War history
Civil War History
- The Willard: Where hope collapsed as slavery raged
- A ‘beloved son’ of the Civil War
- Letters to Abraham Lincoln during his election and first year as president
- The stories behind the Civil War’s famous names
- The Civil War 150 Legacy Project: Out of Virginia’s attics, voices from the past
- Mathew Brady’s photographs made a president, captured reality of Civil War
- Before he became the national icon, Lincoln was a shrewd candidate
- President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington
- Newspapers react to Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 presidential win
Civil War Books
- ‘The Union War’
- ‘The American Civil War: A Military History’
- ‘This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War’
- ‘Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War’
- ‘This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War’
- ‘Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War’
- ‘First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War’
- ‘Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed the Course of American History’
- ‘Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War’
- ‘West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War’
- ‘Throes Of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877’
- ‘Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War’
- ‘Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War’
- ‘How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat’
- ‘The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded From the Confederacy’
Civil War in the News
- McDonnell invites Obama to celebrate civil war sesquicentennial in Virginia
- Va. teacher holds mock slave auction
- KidsPost: Attack on Ft. Sumter marked start of war
- Revising the Record in the Civil War
- Teaching the Civil War, 150 years later
- Altered Lincoln pardon at National Archives to be removed from circulation
- Wal-Mart drops plans for building on Virginia battlefield site
- A tender spot in master-slave relations
- Divided they stand on rebel spirit
- Va. collector donates Civil War photographs to Library of Congress
- Md. man corrects Civil War tombstone
- Review: National Archives exhibit on the Civil War
- Clara Barton’s D.C. home and office may be converted into museum
- Despite Virginia’s role in electing first black president, Confederate soldier statues hold their
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