Along with hotpants and bell bottoms, sideburns and disco, the 8-Track deck in your dad’s Thunderbird represented not just a nostalgic era, but a revolution in freedom.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.