Kevin Willmott’s satirical fantasy, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, embraces the fictions that the South won the Civil War (better make that “the War of Northern Aggression”), that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Between the winter of 1860 and the ...

Mock documentaries like This is Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman usually make us laugh, but a new mock doc, CSA: Confederate States of America, is made of sterner stuff. Los Angeles Times and Morning ...

Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War in April 1861, the newly established Confederate States of America began printing its own paper currency for monetary transactions. This paper currency was ...

Kevin Wilmott talks on KCUR's Up To Date on May 31, 2023 about the film “No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas.” Kevin Willmott is best known for his Oscar-winning movie ...

The only known photo of Jefferson Davis in uniform, taken when he was a major general of Mississippi troops, just before the start of the war. The uniform is a Federal Army uniform. (Courtesy of ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...