On the Civil War’s sesquicentennial, a panel discussed the Civil War’s effects on the Amherst community.
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Amherst College panel discusses how Civil War affected town
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Author Tony Horwitz talks Harpers Ferry, new book
Tony Horwitz, author of “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War,” spoke about Brown and his legacy at a lecture yesterday in the Cape Cod Lounge.
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Save Syria from falling apart
Collegian columnist Claire Anderson speculates that an intervention in Syria might quell the country’s internal conflicts.
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UMass professor Manisha Sinha re-examines abolitionists’ role in Civil War
In a Distinguished Faculty Lecture yesterday, the associate professor asked if “the abolitionists cause the Civil War.”
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History professor to examine abolitionists’ role in Civil War
University of Massachusetts professor Manisha Sinh will present a Distinguished Faculty lecture Wednesday titled “Did the Abolitionists Cause the Civil War?”
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