Program/Event Fighting America’s Wars: From the Civil War through Vietnam Veterans Legacy Program Seminar Application Deadline : The application closed on March 5, 2024. Join us for free livestreams of the seminar lectures. Livestream Dates : July 22–25, 2024 Lead Scholar : Beth Bailey, University of Kansas Master Teacher...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Poem on a Civil War death: "Only a Private Killed," 1861 Literature Approximately 3.5 million men served in the Union and Confederate military during the Civil War. Recent scholarship indicates that at least 750,000 men died. Lewis Mitchell of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers was one of those men. On...
Spotlight on: Primary Source The women’s rights movement after the Civil War, 1866 The fight for women’s rights that had begun in earnest with the convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, diminished in the 1850s and 1860s as reformers focused on the abolition of slavery and the Civil War, but the movement did...