Civil War

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“It violates what the statute says as a matter of text and history, and just how it’s been understood since the Civil War basically.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

“It will not probably take a war to overthrow the principle of the legal-tender act,” wrote Sumner, alluding to the Civil War, “but it may take a national bankruptcy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

For the proud sons of two Royal Navy sailors caught up in one of the most notorious incidents of the Chinese Civil War there was only one mission - to have those involved publicly honoured.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Nearby, is a large poster, with text penned by famed slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass, that was carried in a 1863 parade during the Civil War that calls "Men of Color, To Arms! To Arms!"

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

When the Civil War ended in 1865, most of Packingtown turned hopes for employment to the newly opened Union Stock Yard.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield