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Choosing Sides: Native Americans and the Civil War

America Explained

What about the Native Americans who found themselves stuck in the middle of the Civil War – why did they fight for both...

How the Telegraph Changed America

Museum of Artifacts That Made America

Military leaders didn’t just rely on carrier pigeons and messengers on horseback to share information during the American Civil War – they texted each other using...

Elizabeth Keckly: From Slavery to the White House

Slavery in the President's Neighborhood

She was enslaved at birth – but became the first lady’s favorite dressmaker and the author of a sensational memoir that shocked the nation. So who was Elizabeth...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Did a Book Spark the Civil War?

America Explained

It was published nine years before a shot was fired. And was written by a woman. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin fan the flames of the American Civil...

Black Soldiers and the Fight for Citizenship

America Explained

For those enslaved, it was the perpetrator of countless horrors. So why did almost 200,000 African-Americans put their lives on the line to preserve the United...
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