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DOGE Stops Funding of Whitney Plantation Which Tells the Story of Enslaved Blacks
The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana was founded in 1752. It contained dozens of enslaved African Americans until the Civil War broke out. In 2014…
DOGE Is Given Even More Power Over National Parks and Historic Sites
DOGE has reduced staffing at the National Park Service by more than 10% over the last three months, but on Thursday Interior Secretary Doug Burgum…
Civil War Monuments at Lexington, Massachusetts-Where the Revolution Started
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on April 19, 1775, two hundred and fifty years ago. This is the start of the Revolutionary…
Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parton
This page is under construction and should be finished by March 30, 2025. Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation…
Federal Government Stops Funding “National History Day” Just Nine Weeks Before It Is To Take Place
The president has stopped funding for National History Day just nine weeks before the event takes place. National History Day had already gotten contracts for…
Sherman’s March Helped Bring a Georgia Family Together
When Major General William Tecumseh Sherman began his March to the Sea on November 15, 1864, many Georgians greeted the Union armies as deliverers from…
Historian Elizabeth Varon on Replacing History With Myth at Appomattox
Elizabeth Varon is a noted Civil War historian at the University of Virginia. Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War…
Civil War Sesquicentennial Monument Cranbury New Jersey
In my search for Civil War monuments, I have visited many that were erected soon after Appomattox, but I have also discovered quite a few…
Outcry Against National Park for Altering the History of the Underground Railroad Succeeds!
The outcry against the National Park Service over its altering of the history of the Underground Railroad on its website has succeeded, at least for…
NPS Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Database No Longer Being Updated
The National Park Service has maintained a website for years where people can type in a name, typically of an ancestor, and get fairly good…
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