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Reconstruction National Park Ranger Chris Barr Video on Harriet Tubman in South Carolina During Civil War

Harriet Tubman went to Beaufort South Carolina during the Civil War to help the Union cause and end slavery. Well-known National Park Service Ranger Chris…

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Video: The Port Royal Experiment Talk by Ranger Chris Barr on How Coastal Carolina Was an Experiment in Black Freedom

Chris Barr is back with a new short video on the “Port Royal Experiment.” This is how Beaufort, South Carolina and the nearby islands were…

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Video: Ranger Chris Barr Explains the Reconstruction Era in Beaufort, South Carolina and When Stuff Happened

National Park Ranger Chris Barr is very well-respected among Civil War and Reconstruction Era students. Last month Reconstruction Era National Park began releasing short videos…

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Do We Ignore Prisoners of War When We Study the Civil War?

I was rereading the September 2017 issue of Civil War history recently. It had a roundtable discussion by academic and public historians about Civil War…

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