American Civil War
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Hottest Abe: wax statue of Lincoln loses its head amid US heat wave
The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave
Robert E. Lee’s former Virginia mansion reopens to the public with an enlightening focus on the enslaved
Arlington House, where wealthy white privilege contrasts with bondage and suffering, has undergone a $12.3m rehabilitation and reinterpretation
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'We must stop memorialising such a dark part of our history': official stance on Confederate monuments is shifting
Memorials honouring controversial generals continue to stir debate in many Southern states, but lawmakers are finding creative ways to deal with them
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To see or not to see: Parisian exhibition documents the history of war photography
The Museum of Contemporary History provides historical explanations for why war photographers took the pictures that they did