Part 3 - Few Civil War battles had more impact, and yet were more quickly forgotten, than Perryville. Kenneth Noe, author of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, details the campaign and battle, and discusses why its importance faded from view.

As an artistic format, the 32-page picture book looks simple, but using it to bring history to children is a challenge. Karen B. Winnick, author of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, both set in the Civil War era, describes how she uses words and illustrations to communicate important truths in historical settings.

Part 3 - As an artistic format, the 32-page picture book looks simple, but using it to bring history to children is a challenge. Karen B. Winnick, author of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, both set in the Civil War era, describes how she uses words and illustrations to communicate important truths in historical settings.

Part 2 - As an artistic format, the 32-page picture book looks simple, but using it to bring history to children is a challenge. Karen B. Winnick, author of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, both set in the Civil War era, describes how she uses words and illustrations to communicate important truths in historical settings.

Living in Gettysburg, historian Thomas Desjardin discovered that many of the most well-known stories of the battle are badly distorted versions of the original events.

In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle. He raises the disturbing question: is it possible ever to know what really happened in the past?

Part 3 - Living in Gettysburg, historian Thomas Desjardin discovered that many of the most well-known stories of the battle are badly distorted versions of the original events.

In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle. He raises the disturbing question: is it possible ever to know what really happened in the past?

Part 2 - Living in Gettysburg, historian Thomas Desjardin discovered that many of the most well-known stories of the battle are badly distorted versions of the original events.

In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle. He raises the disturbing question: is it possible ever to know what really happened in the past?

Did the blockade make a difference? Why did Union forces spend so much effort to take Wilmington, N.C., in the final year of the war? Wilmington native and UNC-Wilmington professor Chris Fonvielle, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.

Part 3 - Did the blockade make a difference? Why did Union forces spend so much effort to take Wilmington, N.C., in the final year of the war? Wilmington native and UNC-Wilmington professor Chris Fonvielle, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.

Part 2 - Did the blockade make a difference? Why did Union forces spend so much effort to take Wilmington, N.C., in the final year of the war? Wilmington native and UNC-Wilmington professor Chris Fonvielle, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.