Starting with a brief history, Memorial Day has not always been known as Memorial Day. What we know of today as Memorial Day began as a holiday called Decoration Day.

The Civil War death chart has raised.

The tragedy of the men who lost the American Civil War.

For the history buff Colonial Williamsburg is a dream come true. Not only do you get to see a precise reconstruction of this enchanting colonial town (which was once the capital of Virginia) and which has been painstakingly restored to its colonial splendor, but this isn’t just some static museum. Colonial Williamsburg is truly a location where you can immerse yourself in history.

Movies about the American Civil War have been churned out by Hollywood for more than a century. While some of them are pretty good, others, well, as was famously said in Gone with the Wind, you “frankly don”t give a damn’ for.

A Day-to-Day Account of the American Civil War.

Conventional wisdom suggests that if the South had won, it would have remained a rural wasteland; I beg to differ …

The Civil War of the United States of America was inevitable.

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