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A Historic Time Capsule | Walter Edgar's Journal

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A Historic Time Capsule | Walter Edgar's Journal
Episode 3
The Hunley is described as “a historic time capsule.” Sen. Glenn McConnell discusses using the clues found in the Hunley to piece together what happened the night it sank the U.S.S. Housatonic.
The Spate of Civil War Literature | Walter Edgar's Journal

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The Spate of Civil War Literature | Walter Edgar's Journal
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Walter Edgar talks with Dr. McPherson about the increase in Civil War writings within the past thirty years. Writers have since expanded on aspects like civilian life, experiences for common soldiers...
The Civil War At 150 (Full Version)

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The Civil War At 150 (Full Version)
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Dr. James McPherson, professor emeritus of American History at Princeton University, won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, which has since sold more than six hundred thousand copies...
Why We Fight | Walter Edgar's Journal

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Why We Fight | Walter Edgar's Journal
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Dr. James McPherson discusses the reasons and motivations behind what made common soldiers ("Billy Yank" and "Johnny Reb") go fight in the Civil War.
Found: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Photo Albums (Full Version)

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Found: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Photo Albums (Full Version)
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Mary Chesnut’s diary, originally published forty years after the Civil War as Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, is generally acknowledged today as the finest literary work of the Confederacy. Spiced by the...
Found: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Photo Albums (Full Version) - Episode 4 A Woman Ahead Of Her Time | Walter Edgar's Journal

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A Woman Ahead Of Her Time | Walter Edgar's Journal
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Martha Daniels analyzes the albums’ “Panoramic Breadth,” and how Mary Chesnut was an educated woman ‘ahead of her time.’ Along with photos of famous Southerners, the albums also feature photographs of...