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Topic: The Civil War

Capture of John Brown in the engine house, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, USA, 1859 (c1880). Brown (1800-1859) believed that armed insurrection was the only way to end slavery in the United States. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What to America is John Brown?

Ailish Hopper
Laura Ingraham (Getty/Timothy Clary)

Laura rants about Confederate monuments

Shira Tarlo
"The Vietnam War" (PBS)

The Vietnam War

Melanie McFarland
(Getty/Mark Wilson/naphtalina)

Trump's biggest history fails

Charlie May
(Reuters/Eric Thayer)

Julie Alderman - Media Matters
(Reuters/L.E. Baskow/AP/John Bazemore/Photo montage by Salon)

Confederate fantasies & Trump

Bob Cesca
A Confederate flag flies at the base of Stone Mountain Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Stone Mountain, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP)

"This flag comes down today!"

Ericka Schiche

Scott Eric Kaufman
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm ("Battle Lines")

Scott Eric Kaufman
A detail from "Battle of Spottsylvania" by Thure de Thulstrup (Wikimedia)

A world war on American soil

Don H. Doyle