How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
Dead soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg in July of 1863.
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On the 160th anniversary of the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg, a political scientist finds that residents of formerly Confederate states express greater support for political violence than others.
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, site of a savage Civil War battle on Sept. 17, 1862.
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