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Washington, D.C.: Meet Ken Burns on this Civil War history trip
Los Angeles Times Daily Travel & Deal bloggerFilmmaker Ken Burns stars in a five-day Civil War tour of Washington, D.C., designed to capture the story he told in his documentary about the war and its aftermath. For the second year, Connecticut-based Tauck travel company teamed with Burns to create...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Wars and Interventions, Abraham Lincoln, Arts, Trips and Vacations
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Trayvon Martin case: George Zimmerman, mystery gunman
George Zimmerman, who shot a black teenager in Florida, is in hiding after receiving death threats. A full portrait has yet to emerge of the 28-year-old, one of the characters at the center of the drama that has turned questions about race and guns into a...
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Oscars 2012: 'Undefeated' filmmakers say sorry for the F-bomb
24 FramesAcademy Awards 2012: "Undefeated," a film about an inner-city football team at Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tenn., took home the best documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards on Sunday.... -
Oscar documentary shortlist includes 'Paradise Lost 3,' 'Project Nim'
24 Frames"Bill Cunningham New York," a look at the veteran New York fashion photographer, "Buck," the story of acclaimed "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman; and "Under Fire: Journalists in Combat," from director Martyn Burke, were among the 15 feature-length... -
A journey through Civil War sites
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAlthough the Civil War was waged across the country — from Arizona to Maine — some of the heaviest and most decisive fighting took place in the beautiful rolling countryside of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Piedmont, as it's called,...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A chapter that's all but forgotten: When the Civil War came west
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThings hadn't gone according to plan — do they ever in war? — and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The cavalry officer and his dozen or so men would rescue his colleague, Capt. William McCleave, from those nettlesome rebels...Tags: Tucson, Wars and Interventions, History, Orange County Regional History Center, Tourism and Leisure
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Missouri's bloody Civil War battles
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Split state" used to sound simple to me, as though it were 50-50, North versus South, nice tidy halves. But Missouri wasn't just split in the Civil War. It was shattered. Rifts ran through every level of society all over the state — through...Tags: Crimes, Wars and Interventions, Yale University, History, Slavery
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Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI
Money & CompanyThe founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to a thriving industry. Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and a number of their affiliates...... -
John Jorgenson at Grammy Museum's night of 'Great Guitars'
Pop & HissGuitarist John Jorgenson gave Grammy Museum officials a special challenge during his question-answer-performance session Monday night: how to shoehorn the myriad aspects of an extraordinarily multifaceted career into the usual two-hour time slot and leave... -
A Civil War road trip
Special to the Los Angeles TimesKen Burns, whose landmark documentary on the Civil War established him as one of its quintessential authorities, thinks there's no better way to get a sense of the Civil War than to visit its battlefields, museums and national parks. "When we go to Civil...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Nashville, Ken Burns, Thomas Jefferson, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Events marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War at Ft. Sumter, S.C., underway until April 17 will give rise to a host of reenactments throughout the nation until 2015, although you're unlikely to see one on a National Park...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Stonewall Jackson, Wars and Interventions, Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Civil War deeply rooted in Virginia
Special to the Los Angeles TimesOn a blustery late-winter afternoon at Manassas, where a muscular statue of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson marks the spot where the Confederate general earned his nickname, the Civil War lives, not separate from life in Virginia, but intricately entwined with...Tags: U.S. Army, Wars and Interventions, Sculpture, History, Slavery
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