Death and the Civil War (2012)
1861–1865 · Resource
Ric Burns on how mass death remade American funerary practice. Excellent but narrow.
On these timelines: Documentaries, Resources: Combined
Around 1861
- American Civil War (1861)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)