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“Good came out of evil, as it often does…” Thus writes Susan Warner at the end of her novel The Wide, Wide World, a work often considered America’s first best seller. It was certainly a literary sensation. Published by Putnam in 1851 Warner’s novel was widely acclaimed. Henry James, for example, compared it to the
New traverses (top), reproduction guns, new visitor center, Civil War image (Fort Fisher, Library of Congress) In a unusual project, Fort Fisher State Historic Site near Kure Beach, N.C., in coming months will restore a portion of earthworks leveled during World War II to make way for a training base airstrip. The work is in
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Everyone loves candy, and people during the Civil War period were no different. Recipe books of the time feature numerous recipes for sweets of all kinds. Mrs. Cowan’s American Lady’s Cookbook (1847) includes recipes for coconut, lemon, rose, horehound, and rock candy as well as peppermints and molasses twists. Commercial candy was also widely enjoyed.
A.J. Klapp’s drawing of a deadline shooting at Andersonville (Brown University Library) Before the word deadline became synonymous with getting something done by a specific time, it was associated with a deadly feature of Civil War prisons. A captive crossing the deadline risked death, and there are instances of guards on both sides shooting them.
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In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, who was helping to set up the Public Record Office (later the Post Office) in England, needed a way to encourage people to use the Penny Post. He and an artist friend, John Horsley, decided to design and print 1000 Christmas cards and sold them. However, the sending of cards
Kris Heister, Little Round Top rehabilitation, Spangler Farm (NPS photos) Kristina “Kris” Heister, the new superintendent at Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site, comes from a family with deep roots in Pennsylvania. Her ancestors came over from Germany in about 1732 and produced congressmen and other political leaders in the state. Heister,
The Civil War and Reconstruction transformed immigration policy in the United States, marking the transition from a sub-national to a national policy for regulating the admission, exclusion, and removal of foreigners. Before that turning point, Congress played almost no role in regulating immigration, other than naturalization policy (for white people) and passenger acts setting conditions
