“Historically, I write mostly banjo instrumentals ... The resulting songs examine the Civil War era from a wide range of viewpoints. “Dearest Friend and Only Lover,” for example, has ...

Minstrel-era iconography is everywhere ... Shaun Clarke sits at the computer, showing 3D model of a pre-Civil War banjo, while Marc Fields looks on. (Andrea Shea/WBUR) “You can you can look ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

Cabinet card image of Horace Weston (ca. 1880s) posing with his top hat and a fretless instrument, possibly a Stewart Universal Presentation banjo, included in the research files of the Old Town ...

The Civil War has long since passed, but Mike Anderson is keeping the music and instruments of the era alive ... Among some of the others were a banjo and a “homemade” type of stringed ...

“It’s pretty telling that those Reconstruction-era laws would apply to this case, and it suggests that we are fighting a lot of the same battles that we were fighting in the Civil War," said ...

banjo historian who began researching and recording ... “If we’re going to play music from the Civil War era, we also need to understand the historical context in which that music was being ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil forfeiture action against a rare Civil War-era firearm believed to have been unlawfully removed from the Springfield Armory. The firearm, a U.S ...

But, most of his attention recently has been focused on his latest acquisition, an old banjo supposedly played by Fred Frisby in the Carson City Firehouse Band during World War I. Dotson purchased the ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A wildfire swept through portions of a Civil War-era fort and historical site in southern New Mexico, forcing the evacuations of campgrounds and a horse ranch, authorities ...

Both were critical and popular hits. In the decades since, filmmakers have returned to the Civil War era to tell other stories in films like “Glory,” “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained ...