Death and the Civil War (2012)
1861–1865 · Resource
Ric Burns on how mass death remade American funerary practice. Excellent but narrow.
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Around 1861
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)