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Video Reconstruction in the Movies-NPS Ranger Rich Condon Discusses Hollywood Depictions

Reel History is a regular series on YouTube discussing how history is portrayed by Hollywood. In this episode Reconstruction in the Movies National Park Ranger…

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Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song Edited by Chris Mackowski

Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song Edited by Chris Mackowski, published by Southern Illinois University Press (2020) $26.50 paperback. One of…

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“Gone With the Wind” Is a Confederate Monument Says Historian Nina Silber

Historian Nina Silber has an interesting article in today’s Washington Post titled ‘Gone With the Wind’ is also a Confederate monument, but on film instead…

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Book Review: This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber

This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber published by Univerity of North Carolina Press (2018) 234 pages. Hardcover $32.95…

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