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What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today

What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era and Today
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When shots were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Civil War began and so did a new era in American photojournalism. But even though the conflict was the first U.S. war to be systematically photographed, photographs of Black Civil War soldiers, 160 years later, are hard to find.
Even harder to find are photographs of a small subset of those troops: the 13 men who, out of more than 180,000 Black Americans who served in the Union Army, are known to have done so as surgeons, according Jill L. Newmark’s research for the U.S. National Library of Medicine. ....

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What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today

What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today
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Column: Renaming of two Waukegan schools 'has been a learning process for those involved'

Waukegan’s process is similar to others across the nation which are rethinking the naming of schools for slaveholders, cultural oppressors and outright racists. ....

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Remarkable unseen pictures shed light on courage of black Civil War soldiers

New photography book sheds light on the experience of black Civil War soldiers in never-before-seen photos
Book explores the role of photography in telling the story of African Americans during the US Civil War
As well as soldiers, the photographs also celebrate African American surgeons and a war correspondent
Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the Civil War ....

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