Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Sometimes we look at history as distinct eras, with distinct events, most likely because that’s the way history class presents it. But there’s always a significant overlap in world events, eras, and people. We tend think of the American Civil War as ancient history, and the Civil Rights movement as recent -probably because of the TV coverage.
However, the two eras were witnessed by some of the same people. The last surviving Civil War veteran died…The post The Quirks of Overlapping History appeared first on FeedBox.