Historical Resources to Contextualize the Storming of the U.S. Capitol
The events that occurred at our nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021 are not only shocking in today’s world, but also generated …
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June 2015 Artifact of the Month | Thomas Green Penn's Hardtack
The Civil War is sometimes called “a Rich man’s war, but a poor man’s fight.” Laws, in both the North and …
Civil War Fact of the Day | May 26, 2015
On this day in 1865, Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith’s Trans-Mississippi Department was surrendered (without his knowledge, though he accepted the terms one …
May 2015 Artifacts of the Month | Pencil and cufflinks
On May 11, 1865, Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, was arrested in Crawfordville, Georgia. When informed that he was to …