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University of Cincinnati Professor Christopher Phillips talked about the way tactics and ideologies from the Western Theater, such as guerrilla fighting, influenced other theaters of the Civil War.
The American Civil War Museum is debuting a new theater and a new original film, “A People’s Contest: America’s Civil War and Emancipation,” on Friday. The Robins Theater is a 1,128-square ...
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Many people can remember the names of famous Civil War battles they learned about in school, names such as Gettysburg, Bull Run and Antietam. But the battles of the “Western ...
Content by The American Civil War Museum. Virginia has a rich history with many chapters. One of them is told in immersive fashion at the sites that comprise The American ...
U.S. Naval Academy professor emeritus Craig Symonds spoke about military operations in the West during the U.S. Civil War. He focused on significant naval battles along Western rivers, the use of ...
New Looks at the Civil War in the West. In this new book from Savas Beatie’s “Emerging Civil War” series, Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris Mackowski have collected forty-seven short papers by thirty ...
An exclusive interview with Chris Wheeler, producer and director of Civil War: The Untold Story. Wheeler discusses why he focused on the Western Theater in the five part series. Aired: 04/29/14 ...
Gen. William T. Sherman, mythic figure in American history, was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1820. His birthplace, the Sherman House Museum, opens for the season April 10, 2024.
The American Civil War Museum’s acclaimed new exhibit, “The Impending Crisis: How Slavery Caused the Civil War,” focuses on slavery as the key underlying cause of the conflict.The exhibit ...
“Reliable estimates of Native participation in the Civil War are hard to come by,” says Mark Hirsch, a historian at the museum. Sources believe anywhere from 6,000 to 20,000 men fought in the ...
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. AP - Hot Springs will soon have a new Civil War museum that will focus on the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the 1861-1865 American conflict.The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ...