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A dredge-boat, sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day, 1864.

• James McPherson reviewed John Keegan’s new book, The American Civil War.




• Read the sparse, but interesting, 1869 journal turned into a blog called A Day In The Life of a Blacksmith.




• Early American Crime explained how Robin Hood is more American than British.




• PhiloBiblos reviewed Gordon S. Wood’s new book Empire of Liberty.




• Smithsonian Magazine explained how World War II German POWs were shipped to the United States and kept in rural areas across the country.

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