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Rare 400yo coin printed as English Civil War ‘political propaganda’ being auctioned

A 400-year-old coin that was printed as ‘political propaganda’ during the English Civil War is being sold at auction. The ...
PBS

Behind the Lens: A History in Pictures

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. One of the major accomplishments during the Civil ...
The Economist

Britain has its own vexed history of civil war monuments

IN THE DIN of traffic around Trafalgar Square, it is easy to miss the statue in the middle of the road that flanks it. Tiny in comparison with Nelson’s Column, and often obscured by passing buses, the ...
IndieWire

Dziga Vertov’s Long-Lost ‘History of the Civil War’ Screens Again 100 Years After Its Last Showing

It was long presumed that a 12-minute snippet was all that still existed from the film. It’s not every day a silent film is discovered, restored, and screened for audiences 100 years since it was last ...
The Washington Post

Here’s the Civil War history they didn’t want you to know

Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of History.” A ...