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Article: University Of Richmond To Host First Event In Civil War Sesquicentennial Series April 29; Registrations Now Being Accepted
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- December 9, 2008
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The University of Richmond issued the following news release:
In 1859, the United States was still two years from the beginning of the Civil War, yet there were signs that things were about to change. John Brown led a raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry, the slave-based economy of the South was at an all-time peak and a presidential election with some calling for radical change was nearing.
University of Richmond President Edward L. Ayers, an award-winning author and historian of the American South, has assembled a group of nationally recognized Civil War historians to explore the state of the country two years before the first shots were fired in the nation's deadliest conflict. They ...