S4E38: "April Mornings - Comparing Revolutionary and Civil War commemorations"
April is an important month concerning two formative events in American history; 250 years ago saw the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the start of the Revolutionary War, and four score and six years later the Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter. President Lincoln was killed in April four years later, just after the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered, effectively ending the war.
I spoke with Danielle and Eleanor, two experts in the study of these conflicts, to compare and contrast how the Revolutionary War and Civil War have since been commemorated, and to decide how that is reflective of each era that has memorialized.
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