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North and South (miniseries)
North and South is a 1985 ABC Civil War-era miniseries based on John Jakes's 1982 novel, produced by David Wolper, starring Patrick Swayze and James Read; two sequels followed in 1986 and 1994.
Petersen House
The Petersen House at 516 10th Street NW, Washington, D.C., is the 1849 boarding house of William and Anna Petersen where Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, after being shot at Ford's Theatre; now an NPS museum.
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans: faction of the 1850s–1877 Republican Party led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, demanding abolition, Black civil rights, and harsh Reconstruction terms for the former Confederacy.
Samuel J. Seymour
Samuel James Seymour (1860-1956), also called the last witness to Lincoln's assassination, claimed he saw Booth shoot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in 1865 and told the story on I've Got a Secret in February 1956; his presence there is undocumented.
Scalawag
Scalawag was a pejorative term for white Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction governments after the Civil War; with freedmen and carpetbaggers, they controlled Southern states until 1877.
Shenandoah (film)
Shenandoah is a 1965 American Civil War drama directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart as a neutral Virginia farmer whose son is taken prisoner.
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), hereditary neo-Confederate organization founded 1896 in Richmond, Virginia, for male descendants of Confederate soldiers; promotes Lost Cause claims denying slavery as the Civil War's cause and defends Confederate monuments.
Southern Victory
Southern Victory (Timeline-191) is Harry Turtledove's 11-book alternate history series, 1997 to 2007, in which the Confederacy wins the Civil War from an 1862 Special Order 191 divergence and the rival American nations fight through 1945.
The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent historical epic directed by D. W. Griffith, adapted from Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman and starring Lillian Gish.
The Civil War (miniseries)
The Civil War, also known as Ken Burns' Civil War, is a nine-episode 1990 PBS documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns that drew about 40 million viewers.
The Guns of the South
The Guns of the South is Harry Turtledove's 1992 Ballantine alternate-history novel in which South African white supremacists from 2014 give the Confederacy AK-47s; Lee wins the Civil War, becomes president, and pursues gradual emancipation.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a 1969 song by Robbie Robertson, sung by Levon Helm on The Band's album The Band, about the Civil War's end; Joan Baez's 1971 cover made it a hit.
The Red Badge of Gayness
The Red Badge of Gayness is South Park Season 3 Episode 14 (production 314), aired November 24, 1999, written by Trey Parker. Cartman leads drunken Confederate reenactors, fueled by Jagermen's S'More Schnapps, to win the Civil War.
The Undefeated (1969 film)
The Undefeated is a 1969 American Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson as former Union and Confederate colonels leading rival columns into Mexico.
The Underground Railroad (novel)
The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead: alternate-history novel in which Cora escapes a Georgia plantation on a literal underground train, stopping in different worlds by state. Pulitzer 2017 and National Book Award 2016 winner; adapted by Barry Jenkins.
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave (1853) is Solomon Northup's memoir, told to and edited by David Wilson, recounting his 1841 kidnapping in Washington and twelve years enslaved in Louisiana until his 1853 rescue; a major antebellum slave narrative and basis of the 2013 Steve McQueen film.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel, was the 19th century's best-selling US novel and spawned Tom shows, Tomitudes, films, and the contested 'Uncle Tom' epithet.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When Johnny Comes Marching Home is an 1863 Civil War song published in Boston under Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore's pseudonym Louis Lambert, dedicated to the Union Army and Navy, with disputed melody origins and later use in both world wars.