With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

The Ethnic Origins of Confederate First Lady Varina Howell Davis, Wife of Jefferson Davis. [Dated article from robots in masquerade dot blogspot dot com] Picture above of Jefferson Davis and his ne…

Henry Monroe was just 13 years old when he directed maneuvers for the 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry Regiment during the ill-fated attack on Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863. Standing…

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England, economic unrest in Europe, and upheaval in the Caribbean and Latin America began to influence domestic affairs, the foundational ideas of national identity also faced new questions. And with the outbreak of civil war, as two rival governments each claimed the mantle of civilized democracy, the United States' claim to unique standing in the community of nations dissolved into crisis. Could the Union chart a distinct course in human affairs when slaveholders, abolitionists, free people of color, and enslaved African Americans all possessed irreconcilable definitions of nationhood? In this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew F. Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that followed, not only for the nation's own people but also in the ways the nation sought to redefine its place on the world stage.

In remembrance of the soldiers who served in the Civil War, the Liljenquist Family donated their rare collection of over 700 photographs to the Library of Congress

During the period after the Civil War, African Americans gained political power yet faced the backlash of White supremacy. Understanding Reconstruction is also essential for exploring Black power, resilience, and excellence.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

With the recent release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the Civil War has been a hot topic. But for some people, like Rod Coddington, it's always an area of interest — blockbuster or not.

Historische Fotos und Kunst der afroamerikanischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Legenden und Anführer der Schwarzen Geschichte. Ein Foto in der Größe 8 x 10 auf Fuji Film Stock

Modern day photographer John C. Guntzelman has employed Photoshop to accurately colorize a series of classic images by the most celebrated photographers of the civil war era including Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner.

In Memorium..... Crispus Attucks Buffalo Soldiers (the black experience of the civil war) African American Civil War Soldiers Sandusky County, Ohio Buffalo Soldier Union Army Drummer Boy WWI Soldiers African American Women Operating a Canteen for Soldiers Soldiers from Arkansas WWII Buffalo Division WWII Soldier Being Treated WWII Soldiers with Confiscated Nazi Flag Soldiers-Korean War Soldier Shouting... Vietnam War Arriving in Vietnam General Colin Powell Desert Storm Soldier Operation Iraqi Freedom Soldier ADDENDUM: Thank you M. Padar! How could I forget... The Tuskeegee Airmen! WWII Black Nurses serving in London

Reconstruction, the turbulent era following the U.S. Civil War, was an effort to reunify the divided nation, address and integrate African Americans into society by rewriting the nation's laws and Constitution. The steps taken gave rise to the Ku Klux Klan and other divisive groups.

"African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War" is an exhibit that commemorates the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States.

Despite gaining their freedom, African-Americans face struggles in the years after the Civil War.

1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves

In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond, Isle of Wight, and Southampton Counties, the Suffolk campaign followed an exhausting and deadly pattern. Already subjected to the demands of waves of soldiers, first Southern recruits and then Union occupation troops, the people of the region faced the severest tests the Civil War could impose upon human beings. In The War Hits Home, Brian Steel Wills tells the story of these real people in the crucible of war. Reconstructing life for soldiers from the region on the battlefield and for civilians in the homes of southeastern Virginia, Wills provides a full depiction of what life was like for the ordinary person--black, white, soldier, citizen, Unionist, or secessionist--contending with domestic, economic, social, and military hardship in the contest of sectionalism and war. Wills employs their individual experiences to illustrate the impact of the war on a human scale, on soldiers and their relatives, North and South. We witness battlefield horror and family despair, African Americans' embrace of freedom, and the persistence of Confederate nationalism among most whites in the region. Taken as a whole, The War Hits Home is a sweeping but extraordinarily detailed canvas of a fractured American South. | Author: Brian Steel Wills | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press | Publication Date: Nov 14, 2017 | Number of Pages: 364 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback/History | ISBN-10: 0813940605 | ISBN-13: 9780813940601

Student Handout. By Bill Bigelow. 3 pages. This timeline can be used as a resource for lessons on the Civil War, President Lincoln, the 54th Regiment, and the end of slavery.

The battle-weary soldiers who fought on both sides in the American Civil War have been painstakingly brought back to life in 21st century color. These stunning photographs offer a glimpse into the everyday lives of men who fought in the bloody conflict between 1861 and 1865, either for the survival of the Union or a strike out into independence for the Confederates. Some 150 years since Abraham Lincoln outlawed slavery in the US, graphic artist Frédéric Duriez has injected color to historic shots from that era. They depict notable figures like George Armstrong Custer, a fearless leader who was promoted to General at the tender age of 24. Civil war broke out in 1861 when the South had seceded from the United States over slavery and its expansion into the western territories. War erupted when the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in South Carolina were attacked by the Confederate Army on April 12, 1861. The Northern states, led by President Lincoln were known as the Union, while the Southern states, the Confederates of America, marched behind Jefferson Davis. Surgeons of the 4th Division of the 9th Corps are pictured in Petersburg, Virginia in 1864. General Aldred Torbert and his staff during the American Civil War on the vine-covered veranda of a Virginia mansion occupied as their headquarters. A group of officers relax away from the battlefront at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac Date circa 1863. Major General George Armstrong Custer (1839 –1876) was a US Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the American-Indian Wars. Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Anderson, of the Confederates (1813–1892) was a civil engineer and industrialist. A very stern-faced Lieutenant Colonel A.B. Elder of the 10th New York Infantry. This portrait shows a General posing sternly against a sombre grey backdrop. George Edward Pickett (1825 -1875) was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. An unidentified African American woman is pictured in 1861 in this stunning framed photograph. An unidentified soldier in first lieutenant’s uniform, red sash, leather gauntlets, and spurs with cavalry sword circa 1861. A confederate sergeant in uniform and Company B hat with sabre – sometime between 1861 and 1865. (Images © Frédéric Duriez/Exclusivepix Media, via Daily Mail Online)

The enslavement of African people in the Americas by the nations and peoples of Western Europe, created the economic engine that funded modern capitalism. Therefore

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The National Park Service has acquired a rare Civil War-era photograph of an enslaved woman who helped save Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's home in Arlington, Virginia.

A fiercely independent thinker and writer, Martin R. Delany, was a man of many different roles. He was an abolitionist, editor, writer, doctor, and politician, he has also been noted as being the first field officer in the United States Army, serving as a major during and after the American Civil War. He was also among the first black nationalis...

Throughout American history African Americans and most people of color, including Native Americans, were traditionally discriminated against and given

Financial freedom is what many crave today because it is very liberating to be able to live comfortably without the hassle of over budgeting. Imagine what life was like for the many African Americans after the Civil War in the 1800s. Slavery and racism were the African American’s enemy, especially during that era, but man...

In remembrance of the soldiers who served in the Civil War, the Liljenquist Family donated their rare collection of over 700 photographs to the Library of Congress

Doreen St. Félix writes on a new Met exhibit, “African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s,” on view through October 8th, where an eeriness haunts the quaint communal pictures.