- ... that actor George Kunkel portrayed in blackface the character of Uncle Tom, using it at first to promote slavery during the American Civil War but later to attack it, after his views had changed?
- ... that Emma Dean Powell received a pass from General Ulysses S. Grant to accompany her husband to battlefield camps during the American Civil War after he lost his arm?
- ... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?
- ... that Benjamin Jackson was likely paid at least $300 to fight in the American Civil War as Lewis Saunders?
- ... that in the aftermath of the American Civil War, the only Black-led organization providing teachers to formerly enslaved people was the African Civilization Society?
- ... that after the Little Rock campaign, Union forces held three-quarters of Arkansas?
