The 2002 movie Gangs of New York was a strange fil... ...ddressed what was going on in the city during the Civil War . Weird History looks at the Five Points neighborh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/05/08/The-History-Behind-the-Movie-iGangs-of-New-Yorki/In 1861, 25-year-old Samuel Clemens answered the c... ...author’s two-week stint as a soldier in the Civil War largely amounted to him larping as a Confederate....
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/18/Mark-Twain-was-a-Confederate-Soldier-for-a-Couple-of-Weeks/The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was rati... ...itizenship for formerly enslaved people after the Civil War . Political leaders argued over whether it covered...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/27/Wong-Kim-Arks-Fight-for-Citizenship-in-His-Country-of-Birth/Embed from Getty ImagesThe 1939 film Gone With t... ...p opera about one Georgia woman's life during the Civil War , based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Mitc... ...ve generations of viewers a distorted idea of the Civil War era South. The movie was shaped by many scenes th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/03/05/How-iGone-With-the-Windi-Might-Have-Been-Very-Different/Neal V. Loving was born in 1916 and grew up with a... ...was only 20 years old. When the US entered World War II, Loving founded a Black unit of the Civil Air Patrol and trained pilots himself. In 1944, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/05/He-Returned-to-Flying-After-a-Double-Amputation/It has been estimated that up to 10% of the Union... ...made up of volunteers below the age of 18 in the Civil War . Boys as young as 14 would sign up by lying about... ...ement varied on both sides over the course of the war . Both armies were considerate of the tender age o... ...he tender age of these sold...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/01/17/Why-So-Many-Youngsters-Fought-in-the-Civil-War/When you lose your teeth, you could have a set of... ...practice continued at least through the American Civil War . They were expensive and gruesome, but they worke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/18/Waterloo-Teeth/Beginning in the late 18th century, it became the... ...ew Jersey residents.The trend died out around the Civil War , but then re-emerged with the rise of photography...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/16/The-New-Jersey-Obsession-with-Cats-Engaging-in-Witchcraft/In 1628, the Dutch East India Company launched the... ...a ruse, which eventually turned into a full-blown war between the islands. Only 92 people were left whe... ...en fewer by the time they were all transported to civilization
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/12/04/The-Horrifying-Disaster-of-the-Ship-iBataviai/In the 1860s, separate railroad companies worked t... ...westward. They employed Irish laborers along with Civil War veterans and formerly enslaved workers. The Centr...
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