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"John Ericsson had, not a mean streak, but if you upset him, he wasn't going to forget," Peters said, pointing to a book ... the Civil War with the USS Monitor, a concept he had originally pitched to ...

While writing about a slave raid, author and researcher Edda Fields-Black discovered her own family tie to the raid in the ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia!

Archaeologists found 4 Civil War Confederate soldiers' remains in ... Carol Kettenburg Dubbs wrote in her 2002 book, “Defend This Old Town ... “We want it to be ironclad,” he said.

Roughly 14,600 Union soldiers fought about 12,500 Confederates, Carol Kettenburg Dubbs wrote in her 2002 book, “Defend This Old Town.” The number of Union killed, wounded, captured or missing ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. ... Dubbs wrote in her 2002 book, "Defend This ... it be ironclad' ...

We've moved from thousands killed yearly in Jammu and Kashmir to 127 last year.' 'Cross-border terrorism in Kashmir is being solved. We are winning it.' ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of ...

The “Flashpoint for the Civil War” A retired National Parks historian for Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Richard Hatcher opens this new work on the history of Sumter with a look at its origins, as part of ...