Author: Francis Butler

Gaining our Bearings: Historical Scale & Its Implications

HANDOUT - Enslaved workers working for Confederate forces during Civil War.(Courtesy of “The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News”: A Joint Project by Sandra J. Still, Emily E. Katt, Collection Management, and the Beck Center of Emory University)

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J. R. Waud, "The First Vote," November 16, 1867.

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Getting our Bearings: Historical Scale & Its Implications