The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

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Wikimedia Commons/Middleton, Strobridge & Co., lithographer; Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874, artist The 47-day Siege of ...

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A nother mentor Sarna cites is Jacob Rader Marcus, the rabbi and historian who founded the American Jewish Archives at the ...

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The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

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