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GOP Lawmaker Brings Up Her Unusual Collection During Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics
Read More: Robert E. Lee, Video, Jeanine Notter, Civil War, New Hampshire Politics, Battle Flags, Tea Party, Jeanine Notter New Hampshire, New Hampshire Legislature, Civil War History, Politics News

A Republican state legislator in New Hampshire announced during a legislative debate Wednesday that she has a shrine to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee...

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Today In 1865: Civil War Document Changed A Nation

The Huffington Post | Gabrielle Dunkley | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant after the final battle at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865,...

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First Nighter: London Chorus Line Yay! London Dear World Nay!

David Finkle | Posted 02.20.2013 | Arts
Read More: Ed Kleban, Baayork Lee, Nicholas Dante, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Leigh Zimmerman, " "Mame, Tharon Musser, Robin Wagner, Marvin Hamlisch, David Thompson, "Mack & Mabel, "The Madwoman of Chaillot, Jerry Herman, " Charing Cross Theatre, Michael Bennett, Maurice Valency, Jerome Lawrence, Theoni v. Aldredge, "Dear World, " the London Palladium, " Angela Lansbury, John Partridge, The Public Theater, Robert E. Lee, "A Chorus Line, James Kirkwood, Scarlett Strallen, Jean Giraudoux, Gillian Lynne, " Betty Buckley, Bob Avian, Arts News
David Finkle

If there's any evidence that A Chorus Line doesn't remain one of the great musicals, it's nowhere in view at the Palladium. Meanwhile, Jerry Herman's musical Dear World begs the question: Why?

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Civil War Documents Shown For 1st Time

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 11.26.2012 | DC
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WASHINGTON -- Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago ...

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PHOTOS: The Civil War Battle That Changed American History

AP | CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN | Posted 09.17.2012 | DC
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By Christopher Sullivan The Associated Press SHARPSBURG, Md. — From as far away as Minnesota, Colorado and Ohio they came, more than 30 members ...

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Big Battle Anniversary Kicks Off

AP | Posted 09.15.2012 | DC
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SHARPSBURG, Md. -- The National Park Service is kicking off four days of events marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Antietam (ann...

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More Quake Damage Found In Another D.C. Landmark

AP | Posted 01.03.2012 | DC
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- A 200-year-old house in Arlington, Va., that housed Robert E. Lee and his family before the Civil War has suffered minor damage from...

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The Civil War Rages On...In Books, Music and DVD

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.12.2011 | Books
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Michael Giltz

THE CIVIL WAR RAGES ON...A RUNDOWN OF NEW BOOKS, MUSIC AND CLASSIC DVDS Today marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle Of Fort Sumt...

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Arlington Cemetery: Once A Thriving Black Town

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Hermene Hartman

The only trace of Freedman's Village left on the grounds are the lonely graves in Section 27 near the Iwo Jima Memorial.

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Wal-Mart Collapses on Civil War Battlefield

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Al Norman

Wal-Mart's surrender ended their 26-month siege of the Wilderness Battlefield, an attack that sparked national attention, activated numerous historic preservation groups, and aimed a barrage of bad press towards Wal-Mart headquarters.

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Hold Fast to King's Dream

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Langston Hughes, John Conyers, John McCain, Education, Mlk, Prisons, Barack Obama, King, Pew Charitable Trust, Declaration of Independence, Martin Luther King, Arkansas, South Carolina, Confederate, Coretta Scott King, Robert E. Lee, Martin Luther King Day, Evan Mecham, Politics News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

On April 4, 1968, a shot rang out in the Memphis sky and Martin Luther King Jr. fell silent. But King's message of one America, undivided by race, would not die.

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Wal-Mart's Civil War Battle Gets Bloodier

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Al Norman

This week, the first shot in a long legal battle over a 138,000 square foot Wal-superstore near the Wilderness Civil War battlefield, a site of immense historic significance, has hit Wal-Mart -- but its just a superficial wound.

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The Confederacy: Kill the Myth Once and For All

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Jeff Schweitzer

Waving the American flag while fiercely defending the effort to tear that flag down is untenable. Make a choice; be a proud American or a proud Confederate. You cannot possibly be both.

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War Communication Before Modern Technology

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Kate Kelly

The Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps, convinced Union Major General George B. McClellan to permit him to attempt to relay information via telegraph, but from a balloon.

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On the Occasion of President Obama's Wreath for the Confederate Memorial

Ronald Maxwell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Ronald Maxwell

Obama, to his everlasting honor, and in keeping with the tradition of his predecessors, on Memorial Day just two weeks ago sent a wreath to Moses Ezekiel's monument to the Confederate dead.

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