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From PBS - Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive — and defining — conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary...
- We have ambulances and hospitals. The Civil War began during medieval medicine's last gasp and ended at the dawn of modern medicine. Each side entered the war with puny squads of physicians trained by textbook, if at all.
- We prize America as a land of opportunity. The Civil War paved the way for Americans to live, learn and move about in ways that had seemed all but inconceivable just a few years earlier.
- We begin summer with a tribute to fallen soldiers. Ever wonder why we display flags and memorialize fallen solders just as summer gets under way? Flowers, that's why.
- We let technology guide how we communicate. Abraham Lincoln was a techie. A product of the Industrial Revolution, Lincoln is the only president to have held a patent (for a device to buoy boats over shoals).
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Nov 9, 2022 · Civil War Changed U.S. in Untold Ways. Miles Smith IV RealClearHistory November 9, 2022. AP. Robert Penn Warren called the U.S. Civil War the central event of the American imagination. Sept. 17, 1862 — the Battle of Antietam — remains the deadliest day in the history of the United States. Whole armies and whole towns — hundreds of ...
About The Film. Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.The series explores the transformative years following the ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...
