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Purple Heart and Medal of Honor Recipient Jack Jacobs On Courage, Service and Sacrifice Vietnam War Purple Heart and Medal of Honor recipient Jack Jacobs reflects about the shared...	Civil War After the Battle: The Later Lives of Medal of Honor Recipients Delving into what the lives of Civil War Medal of Honor recipients were like once returning home...	Medal of Honor Recipient Melvin Morris Visits Morris Island Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient Melvin Morris visits Fort Wagner battlefield and reflects on...	Medal of Honor Recipient Britt Slabinski Visits Fredericksburg War on Terror Medal of Honor recipient Britt Slabinski reflects on the universal connection between...
Medal of Honor Recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams Visits Gettysburg World War II Medal of Honor recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams reflects on the sense of duty felt...	Interview with Dr. Rob Havers from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library The Trust is grateful to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for its strong support of our...	Rev War The Triangular Trade In the year 1730, in the region of present-day Senegal, a man named Ayuba Suleiman Diallo traveled...	Civil War The Kansas-Nebraska Act Described by historians as the most consequential piece of legislation ever passed, the Kansas-...
Glossary of 18th and 19th Political Terms Federalist : Federalists were a political party that existed during the Early Republic who held...	Civil War Milwaukee to New Orleans: Breweries and the Civil War In 1860, as the Civil War approached, a German immigrant named Eberhard Gottlieb Anheuser decided...	Civil War Bleeding Kansas Between roughly 1855 and 1859, Kansans engaged in a violent guerrilla war between pro-slavery and...	Civil War Lecompton Constitution In early 1857, in response to the violence surrounding Bleeding Kansas , President James Buchanan...
Civil War Interview with Darley Newman from Travels with Darley The American Battlefield Trust sat down to talk with with Darley Newman, Emmy-Award winning TV host...	Civil War "The Most Terrible Ordeal of My Life": The Battle of Fort Pillow With momentum created by his victory at Okolona firmly in hand Confederate Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford...	Battlefield Seasons Photography Contest Share photos of battlefields through the seasons!	The Wilmot Proviso While only a short episode in American politics, the Wilmot Proviso provides insight into anti-...