Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 was not the... ...e recorded some of the most lasting images of the Civil War and he photographed Lincoln’s second inaugu... ...o;Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War ,” he might not be mentioned at all.But Wood...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/26/The-Mystery-of-Lincolns-First-Inauguration-Photograph/Mental Floss has an article about why we eat pumpk... ...th and the South that developed leading up to the Civil War . “Thanksgiving was, above all, a New Englan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/20/When-Thanksgiving-was-a-Fighting-Word/Manly men eat steak, barbecue, and bacon -just ask... ...asn't always been that way. Up until at least the Civil War , there was no notion of gender-specific foods. Fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/25/How-Steak-Became-Manly-and-Salads-Became-Feminine/Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine is the... ...by Tall Barney Beal, who lived there to avoid the Civil War draft. Tall Barney bequeathed the island to the f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/01/The-Man-Who-Went-to-War-With-Canada/The United States, while ostensibly welcoming immi... ...mmigrants from -of all places- Canada. During the Civil War , shipments of cotton from the South ceased and Ne... ...nd mills shut down. As business resumed after the war , nearly a million French-Canadian workers arrived...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/26/When-an-Influx-of-French-Canadian-Immigrants-Struck-Fear-Into-Americans/<p>“Cleanliness is next to god... ...ious terms.</p><blockquote>Before the Civil War , the authors explain, a kind of “cleanlines...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/21/When-Soap-Companies-Used-God-To-Sell-Their-Products/After the Fugitive Slave Law was enacted in 1850,... ...ood. In 1870, she filed a lawsuit against Zebulon Ward for $20,000 in reparations.Born into bondage in K... ...n 1848, but five years later she was kidnapped by Ward , who sold her, and she ended up enslaved on a Tex... ...up enslaved on a Texas plantati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/19/Henrietta-Wood-Sued-for-Reparations-in-1870/Pauline Cushman went to New York City to become an... ...become an actress. After her husband died in the Civil War in 1862, she found work at Wood's Theater in Loui... ...ded Union soldiers and had her arrested.After the war , Cushman resumed her acting career and was regard... ...s a star that burned even b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/17/The-Actress-Who-Left-the-Stage-to-Become-a-Civil-War-Spy/Stories have been told since about the mid-1970s o... ...book titled Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War ’s Most Persistent Myth. Levin's most import... ...the diaries that Confederate soldiers kept as the war went on. Those contemporary accounts painted a pi... ...se contemporary accounts p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/08/The-Diaries-Left-Behind-by-Confederate-Soldiers-Reveal-the-True-Role-of-Enslaved-Labor-at-Gettysburg/Ever since the Continental Congress adopted the st... ...erican flag was always popular, but only with the Civil War did flag mania begin. Kit Hinrichs has collected... ...banners, and merchants unabashedly wrapped their wares in flag packaging and made the Stars and Stripes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/07/02/How-the-American-Flag-Became-Sacredand-the-Hottest-Brand-in-the-Nation/
