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HIGHLIGHT Raising flag at Fort Sumter, where first shots of Civil War were fired in 1861

Do the Charleston; Take a fascinating trip around charming city steeped in history of the American Civil War, the slave trade and the oldest museum in the US

Lincoln Goes to War, 2006), the recruitment effort following Fort Sumter was enhanced by widespread unemployment in the Northeast.

Portrait of Lincoln, with warts

CASE STUDY: FORT MOULTRIE AND FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT National Park Service Mission and Goals "The National Park Service will protect, preserve, and foster appreciation of the cultural resources in its custody and demonstrate its respect for the peoples traditionally associated with those resources through appropriate programs of re-search, planning, and stewardship." (5)

Coating challenges in cultural heritage conservation

TODAY FEAST DAYOF ST ZENO 1861: The American Civil War, a conflict between 23 northern states and 11 southern states, began with the siege of Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

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Eleven anti-abolition riots erupted in Northern cities between 1859 and the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, which began the Civil War.

1852: did a novel start the Civil War? Published 160 years ago, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin captivated--and bitterly divided--America

Commemorating the start of the American Civil War, the Images of America series has produced a beautifully illustrated volume exploring the firing on Fort Sumter. After an introduction that incorporates several primary sources to explain the buildup to the first shot, the rest of the volume chronicles the largest collection of published Fort Sumter images.

The First Shot

The Civil War began on 12 April 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

Civil War manuscripts in the Naval War College's naval historical collection

North Carohnian Catherine Edmonston, who witnessed Union attempts to resupply Fort Sumter, wrote in her diary, "The North is sowing the wind; see that ere the next generation she does not reap the Whirlwind!"

They were there

On September 8, 1863 the daring Preston lead an operation against Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour.

A hero by any definition: a Canadian sailor's lasting legacy

When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist to fight for the Confederate cause.

Fulton, Joe B. The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of our Literature

Here's a sampling of topics: the finding of Neolithic drawings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey is a fraud; ancient Egyptian obelisks were raised by a hitherto undiscovered technology; the Greek city-states were "democratic" by our modern American definition; Pushyamitra Sunga, a Hindu ruler in the second century BCE, was a great persecutor of the Buddhists; the Mayan kingdoms died out from disease; Columbus intentionally underestimated the circumference of Earth in order to get funding; Lincoln maneuvered the South into firing the first shot at Fort Sumter; Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent; and, the final topic of the set: it was reasonable for George W.