#American Civil War

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Fort Montgomery sits on an island in New York, a the conjunction of Lake Champlain and the Richlieu River, withion spittin’ distance of Canada. The three-story stone building, built over several decades including the Civil War era. It was decommissioned

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Source: Atlas Obscura In June of 1864, during the American Civil War, Union forces began to siege the Confederate-controlled city of Petersburg, Virginia. Petersburg was an important railway hub, integral to keeping the Confederate army and their nearby capital of Richmond supplied, so they were

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Sometimes we look at history as distinct eras, with distinct events, most likely because that’s the way history class presents it. But there’s always a significant overlap in world events, eras, and people. We tend think of the American Civil War as

Author: Dan Maloney / Source: Hackaday Jeremy Hong knows a secret or two about things you shouldn’t do with radio frequency (RF), but he’s not sharing. That seems an odd foundation upon which to build one’s 2018 Hackaday Superconference talk, but it’s for good reason. Jeremy knows how to do