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Civil War How Inaccurate Maps Repeatedly Thwarted Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside Curious about the kind of impact a good — or bad! — map could have upon a general on the field?...	Civil War Uncharted Territory: An Introduction to Civil War Mapping This article explores Civil War mapping, from how carefully gathered intelligence was transformed...	Tejano Heroes of the Texas Revolution There may be no better illustration of the complexity of the Texas Revolution than the stories of...	Civil War Soldiers’ Encounters with Nature (in Their Own Words) Between camping, marching and battle, Civil War soldiers had plenty of contact with the natural...
Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2003 Teacher of the Year: Carolyn Ivanoff Recently we had a conversation with Carolyn Ivanoff, the assistant principal at Shelton High School...	Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2017 Teacher of the Year: Shirley Mae Snyder Recently we had a conversation with Shirley Mae Snyder, a teacher at Lyon Magnet Elementary School...	Rev War Paul Revere’s Ride: Legends, Myths, and Realities Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of...	Rev War The Treaty of Paris When news reached London in early December 1781 of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia ,...
Rev War The Battle of Paoli Adam E. Zielinski Situated between the battles of Brandywine and Germantown were two engagements...	Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2018 Abroe-Carter Award Winner: David Niekum Recently, the American Battlefield Trust had a conversation with Dave Niekum, a teacher at Avella...	Rev War The Adams of Massachusetts By: Adam E. Zielinski The story of the Adams family is the stuff of American legend, rightfully so...	War of 1812 10 Facts: The War of 1812 Fact #1: The war was fought between Great Britain and the United States from 1812-1815. The War of...
Rev War Shot Heard 'Round the World “Will you let them burn the town down?” Asked Joseph Hosmer, a resident of Concord, Massachusetts,...	Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2017 Abroe-Carter Award winner: David Wege Recently we had a conversation with David Wege a teacher Waucosta Lutheran Grade School in...	Compromise of 1850 B y the 1840s America was quickly becoming a “ house divided .” The issue of slavery and its...	Civil War Uncle Tom's Cabin When Harriet Beecher Stowe met with President Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1862, he...