Grades: 5-12
Length: 1/45 Minute
Rights: Perpetuity with Duplication and Distribution

WHRO Production

It’s been called the greatest war in American history – the only war fought on American soil by Americans.  By the time it was over, three million had fought, and more than 600,000 of them died – more than the combined fatalities of all the other wars we’ve fought in our short history. And yet, historians of the times couldn’t even agree on its name – they called it the War for Constitutional Liberty, the War for Southern Independence, the War of Northern Aggression, the Second American Revolution, the War Against Slavery – even the Lost Cause! We know it today as the Civil War.

The Civil War in Hampton Roads: 1861 (WHRO’s first production shot in high definition) combines visits to regional Civil War sites, interviews with historians, archivists and educators, footage of re-enactments and archival photographs as well as other period images to examine the role this region played militaristically, politically and strategically, in the war that divided the country in half.

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Tuesday      4/7/09  2:30-4:00 a.m. #1-2
Wednesday   4/8/09   2:30-4:00 a.m. #3-4