The Civil War Battle of Shiloh took place April 6th and 7th, 1862 in Hardin County, Tennessee, and resulted in a Union victory over Confederate forces attempting to defend two major western railroads servicing the strategically important Mississippi Valley region. Nearly 110,000 troops took part in the fighting, which produced almost 24,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle to that point in U.S. history. American History TV visited Shiloh National Military Park, where Stacy Allen, the Park's Chief Ranger, gave us a tour of the battlefield.

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The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia hosted a Civil War Navy Conference in early March to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, when for the first time, ironclads battled during the Civil War. In this session, David Alberg of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary talks about the recovery and identification of human remains from the USS Monitor, the Union ship that faced off with the CSS Virginia near Hampton Roads in 1862. We also hear from genealogist Lisa Stansbury.
 

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The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia hosted a Civil War Navy Conference in early March to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, when for the first time, ironclads battled during the Civil War. In this session, author and Naval Academy history professor Craig Symonds talks about the War along the Atlantic Coast.

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Author William Dobak discusses his book, "Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867," which examines how African American troops were used to improve Union intelligence and the varying attitudes of Union leaders towards black soldiers.

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Lincoln and Civil War scholars discuss why the Civil War didn’t end in 1861, the year that it began. They talked at the Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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The Atlantic has published a special commemorative issue on the Civil War. The edition contains some 50 pieces of reporting, essays, poetry & fiction from the magazine’s archives, but also includes contemporary works, including one by President Obama. The issue covers the run up to the Civil War, the war itself & the aftermath, and some of the writers featured include Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe & Nathaniel Hawthorne. American History TV talked to The Atlantic’s editor, James Bennet, and deputy editor Scott Stossel, about the issue.

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Each year, Time magazine selects a person who had the most influence on events during the previous twelve months. If the same question were posed in 1862, who would Time have selected as the Person of the Year? Five historians will ponder that question and present their candidates for Person of the Year 1862 at a forum organized by Museum of the Confederacy and hosted by the Library of Virginia.

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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation Chairman Harold Holzer discusses Abraham Lincoln and the Freedom of the Press during the Civil War.

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A panel discussion on the career of historian and author James McPherson. Speakers include friends, colleagues and former students of the noted Civil War historian. This two-hour event took place in Chicago at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting.

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A discussion on race and the role it played leading up to and during the Civil War - and how the war’s outcome and immediate aftermath have impacted racial issues ever since. Speakers include Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Yale University professor David Blight, University of Richmond President Edward Ayers, and Frank Smith, who heads the African American Civil War Memorial & Museum.  This two-hour event took place at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.

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