(Photo via Jenny Pancakes)Robert E. Lee Elementary School in Austin, Texas is named after the famous Confederate general with that name. As the Confederate States of America was founded for the explicit purpose of preser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/24/Potential-New-Names-for-an-Elementary-School/This increasingly famous portrait from the US Civil War is of two men. On the left is Andrew Chandler, Co... ...lave, Silas Chandler, who accompanied Andrew into war . Was Silas a Confederate soldier? The question ha... ...for a hundred years, and more recently, groups of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/18/The-Photo-At-The-Center-Of-The-Black-Confederate-Myth/What would you think if you heard that three busin... ...e? Barnum’s first museum was Barnum’s American Museum in Manhattan, which opened in 1842. But th... ...emise of his first museum. “Right after the Civil War , the American...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/31/The-Cursed-History-of-PT-Barnums-Museums/(Image: Alexrk2)In 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War , Maryland was a slave state. There were many Conf... ...resident Lincoln took no chances. For much of the war , Maryland would be occupied by Federal forces dep... ...t the Confederacy in Virginia.It would be an ugly w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/20/Maryland-Considers-Removing-Northern-Scum-from-Its-State-Song/(Photo: David Ngo)Professional cosplay photographe... ...re taking the title of the movie Captain America: Civil War very literally by portraying Captain America as a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/20/Captain-American-Civil-War/How a highly-heated walk-off between America's top... ...country’s mood had also changed post– Civil War : A stern antebellum work ethic had given way to... ...as “the tanbark.” To a generation of Americans , the tanbark was the gridiron of its day....
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/11/The-Amazing-Pedestrian-Race/During the Civil War , some Mississippi soldiers decided they didn&rsqu... ...y. This little-known, counterintuitive episode in American history has now been brought to the screen in Fre... ...at what really happened in Ellisville during the Civi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/17/Newton-Knight-and-the-Free-State-of-Jones/Outlaws break the law, and folk heroes are those t... ...with building the Ledo Road in India during World War II. A few decades before the Civil Rights Movement, African- American units received the jobs nobody else wanted to do;...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/05/10-Notorious-Outlaws-Who-Became-Folk-Heroes/Tipping is a subject that everyone has something t... ...undred years.When tipping began to spread in post- Civil War America, it was tarred as "a cancer in the breast... ...st common insult hurled at it was "offensively un- American ."Loathed as a master-serf custom of the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/22/When-Tipping-Was-Considered-Deeply-Un-American/The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...ngly, when it had to welcome thousands of African- Americans displaced by a horrible flood. FROM OREGON WITH H... ...a state in 1859, stayed with the U.S. during the Civil War , and anti-slavery Abraham Lincoln carried...
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