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Not Forgotten • MONUMENT CONTROVERSY HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED TO MEMORIALIZE AFRICAN AMERICANS’ ROLE IN THE WAR

An American Story • EXPLORING GETTYSBURG THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS BLACK CITIZENS

Lincoln’s Man in Liverpool • THOMAS HAINES DUDLEY AND THE UNION’S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPY RING

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BY THE BOOK • APPLYING MODERN MILITARY ANALYSIS TO SHILOH HELPS MAKE SENSE OF THE CHAOTIC BATTLE

‘General, Are You Wounded?’

FIGHT FACTS

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS • ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND RUSSIA’S CZAR ALEXANDER II FORMED AN UNUSUAL, BUT CRUCIAL, WARTIME ALLIANCE

Not Impressed

Cassius Clay and the Code Duello

‘Deep-Seated Irritation’

SURVIVING ANDERSONVILLE • A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER’S STORY

ATTIC ECHOES • REVISITING CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH TONY HORWITZ

The War, Captured Through Mass Media

Path of War • THE W&OD RAIL TRAIL WEAVES THROUGH A HOTBED OF VIRGINIA CIVIL WAR ACTIVITY

TODAY IN HISTORY JULY 17, 1918 • TSAR NICHOLAS II OF RUSSIA AND HIS FAMILY WERE EXECUTED. YEARS LATER, CONSPIRACY THEORIES EMERGED, AND IMPOSTORS BEGAN TO SURFACE. AN EASTERN EUROPEAN WOMAN NAMED ANNA ANDERSON CLAIMED TO BE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA ROMANOV, SPARED DEATH IN 1918 BY A SYMPATHETIC GUARD. TEN YEARS AFTER HER DEATH IN 1994, DNA TESTING CONCLUDED SHE WAS NOT ANASTASIA BUT A MISSING POLISH FACTORY WORKER.

RICHMOND’S Wartime Woes

Unlikely American Hero

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