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The article examines the Civil War trading card program from the National Park Service in the U.S. Particular focus is given to how the trading of these cards relates to the trading of baseball cards. Additional topics discussed include the popularity of Civil War trading cards, how the cards examine 550 Civil War stories and the Centennial of the war during the 1960s.

The article announces the winning entries in the 2015 Civil War Trust Photography Contest including the Chancellorsville battlefield taken by Theresa Rasmussen as the Grand Prize winner and the bugler by Carl Staub as the First Place winner.

The article emphasizes that the commemoration of the U.S. Civil War in 1861 should have relevance for the Americans. It recounts the 100th anniversary of the Civil War in 1961. To shed light on the story of the Civil War, the National Park Service used the sesquicentennial. It describes the role played by Robert Smalls, a wheelman for the steamship CSS Planter on a mission to deliver a cargo of cannon to an island fortress, in the Civil War.

The article focuses on various legislation passed by the U.S. Congress during the American civil war. It discusses the split between the U.S. federal authority and states' rights regarding finance during the war. It mentions that Congress passed the first income tax in the summer of 1862, a temporary emergency measure that made a reappearance a half-century later with passage of the 16th Amendment. It also discusses Homestead Act, Morrill Act on land-grant schools and Pacific Railroad Acts.

The article focuses on the Battle of Gettysburg held in Pennsylvania in 1863. It is noted that General Robert E. Lee quickly understood that his next moves would be of self-preservation for the Southern cause on the final day of the battle. It is mentioned that Brigadier General John D. Imboden was completing the assembly of a ghoulish wagon train of broken men by the afternoon of July 4, just as the skies were opening up.

The article presents information on the strategy of the U.S. Army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, during the Civil War in the U.S. Scott's plan involved a massive military campaign in the West, and a massive military campaign at sea, which the South could not combat. Scott's plan was called "Anaconda," that had more than 600 modern warships. INSET: Fuss & Feathers.

The article offers news briefs related to the U.S. civil war. Susan Trail, superintendent of Monocacy National Battlefield in Maryland, has been selected to serve at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland. Several public and private organizations are planning to build a visitor center and library on a battlefield site, owned by the Oklahoma Historical Society. J. David Hacker, an associate professor of history, is making efforts to count of the number of soldiers who died in the war.

The article presents a discussion of the locomotives in 1862 during the American Civil War, adapted from the book "Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War," by Tim Rowland.

The article discusses issues regarding the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania battlefield involving the preservationists, residents, entrepreneurs and Civil War enthusiasts. It indicates that the Gettysburg has flourished despite all the suspicion and intrigues. It notes the effort of all involved people to restore the original appearance of the battlefield.

The article presents the author's views on the role of a small town press in covering the events of the Civil War in Maryland in September 1862. He explains how the community in the state reacted to the coming of war through news stories, features, editorials, and even advertisements. The author believes that the September 10-24, 1862 newspaper edition had clearly demonstrated what the people in the state were doing and thinking before and after the Battle of Antietam.

The article offers news briefs related to the U.S. Civil War. Filmakers Tony and Ridley Scott have collaborated with the cable channel History to produce a new film titled "Gettysburg." The Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee has announced its plan to preserve a treasure trove of Civil War writing, maps and artifacts compiled by historian Shelby Foote. A woman from Tennessee has returned a .35-caliber Spiller & Burr revolver lifted from the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.

The article offers news briefs related to the U.S. Civil War. Segway, a type of scooter, is being offered by the Spotsylvania National Military Park for tours of the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield. The National Civil War Naval Museum in Port Columbus, Georgia has been awarded the Leadership in History Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), and Civil War scholars have joined 300 historians in opposing a proposed casino near the Gettysburg National Military Park.

The article commemorates the move of militant abolitionist John Brown to lead a raid on the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1859 to end slavery. It states that in celebration of its 150th anniversary, the hike planned to the Harpers Ferry will be publicized and well attended. It says that although abolitionists remained a fringe group, the attack of Brown on Harper Ferry was eventually seen as the exploit of a martyr and a hero.

The article focuses on the museum and visitor center at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. According to the article, the gallery is a mural of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln with his three-paragraph Gettysburg Address displayed. It is stated that the Gettysburg Address is the heartbeat of the center which is a comprehensive introduction to the Civil War that helped change the course of the war.

The article discusses the author's experiences as a mathematics teacher. The author narrates his experiences of teaching mathematics at Bingley College of Education in Yorkshire, Great Britain. He also cites his experiences in teaching a course on mathematical games and puzzles and his being acquainted with the works of Sam Loyd, Ernest Dudeney, and Martin Gardner.

The article focuses on the story of the author, who is a mathematician. How she began as a mathematics teacher is discussed. She said that in her school-days teaching would have been her last option. On the recommendation of her aunt who was a Principal of a College of Education she went into teaching, as an Assistant Lecturer in the Matlock College of Education in Derbyshire. Her interaction with students developed her teaching skills. Teaching mathematics was not a problem for her. She did a lot of reading. She had good grasp of mathematics and learnt about making short term and medium term plans.

Discusses the purposes of the mathematical theory of proof. Role of explanation as a purpose of proof; Description of activities used by some teachers to teach children about proof; Question regarding what to do with the transition from generic example to conventional symbolic proof; Approach to proof through careful reasoning with particular examples.

Focuses on the significance of inductive inference approaches in learning mathematics. List of the different kinds of problem-solving activities; Symbiotic relationship between induction and deduction; Distinction between empirical and structural generalization; Centrality of generalization in the school mathematics curriculum.

Opinion. Reflects on a interview the author had with two students at different times, pertaining to the same mathematical problem. Details on the difference in their approaches to the solving the problem.

The article offers news briefs related to Civil War in the U.S. The ongoing budget problems in Pennsylvania have the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia a three-year interim plan in hopes of opening a new museum by 2014. The Battle of Franklin in Tennessee ranks as the bloodiest encounter during the Civil War. Moreover, James Whitfield Ross of Virginia was inducted into the Kansas National Guard Hall of Fame on November 8, 2009.

The article states that the cyclorama the "Battle of Atlanta" was removed from Grant Park in Atlanta, Georgia, to the Atlanta History Center in the Buckhead section of Atlanta. According to the article, the painting depicts the July 22, 1864, U.S. Civil War battle and took two days to transport due to its weight of five tons and length of over 100 yards.

The article discusses the completion of repairs to stonework at the historic sites of Gettysburg National Military Park and Antietam National Battlefield.

This section offers news briefs related to preservation efforts at Civil War sites as of September 2015. The Anheuser-Busch Foundation has donated acres of land of the Williamsburg, Virginia battlefield to the Civil War Trust. Funding from the Franklin County, Pennsylvania room tax and Marcellus shale natural gas drilling fees will help the Friends of Monterey Pass Battlefield Inc. preserve land at Monterey Pass. A refurbished Civil War-era cannon was installed at Fort Early in Virginia.

The article states that the University of Mississippi announced that it would post signs stating that slaves built several buildings on the main campus and that the name of former Mississippi governor, U.S. senator, and alleged white supremacist James K. Vardaman would be taken off a campus building.

The article states that the Elmira, New York, Civil War Prison Camp was reopened as a tourist and educational destination by the group the Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp in June 2017.

The article discusses the sword carried by U.S. colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the 54th Massachusetts Infantry's attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, on July 18, 1863, during the U.S. Civil War, and other items of Shaw's that were donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The article discusses the donation of a collection of documents and items related to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln to Mississippi State University (MSU) by author, lecturer, and former Rhode Island Supreme Court chief justice Frank J. Williams.

The article states that the Fairfax County, Virginia, Park Authority announced plans to place obelisks honoring U.S. Civil War soldiers from the Union and Confederacy at the Battle of Ox Hill battlefield in Fairfax County, Virginia.

The article reports that the Cleco Power LLC energy company has donated 14 acres, the battlefield for the 1864 Battle of Mansfield, to the state Department of Parks and Historic Sites in Louisiana.

The article reports that a construction site in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania uncovered more than 300 canonballs, while possibly live canonballs were uncovered in storage at the Siege Museum in Petersburg, Virginia and removed by police bomb specialists.

The article reports that the city of New Orleans, Louisiana has completed its efforts to remove four Confederate monuments or statues from public places in an effort to foster integration and prevent racism and bigotry.

The article reports that a photograph of Bernard (Barney) Ross, known as Albany's Little Drummer Boy of the American Civil War, has been found and identified. He was 12 years old when he joined Union forces with his father in 1861. He contracted a disease in 1864 from which he never fully recovered. He died at age 36 and is buried at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands, New York. Laura LaDuke of Enfield, Connecticut uncovered a tintype with his image and contacted the cemetery's historian Kelly Grimaldi and donated it.

The article reports that 540 rare stereographs of war-era from the Robin G. Stanford Collection have been acquired by the Library of Congress (LC) and is digitizing them. It is mentioned that the LC' website loc.gov already features the first batch of works by Charleston photographers James Osborn and Frederick Durbec and photographs of 16th U.S. President Lincoln's funeral procession.

The article states that the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, National Military Park announced that written examinations for licensed battlefield guides were to be held in December 2017.

The article states that a bill passed the Virginia General Assembly in 2017 that would fund African-American cemeteries in equal amounts to funding for Revolutionary War and Confederate gravesites in Virginia.

The article offers a quotation from U.S. Army general Henry W. Halleck on the performance of troops from California during the U.S. Civil War and praise for Tennessee concerning its preservation of U.S. Civil War sites.