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David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian

David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War Women and Gender

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,

This month the 2025 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute was awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River…

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Posted in Civil War Memory of Reconstruction Monuments

National Museum of African American History & Culture

I was going to roll-out this article in May, but because of the president’s unparalleled attack on the National Museum African American History and Culture…

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Posted in Black Officeholders Civil War Women and Gender

Executive Order Looking at Rewriting History at Smithsonian and National Park System

Tonight the President has issued a new Executive Order that identifies the Smithsonian and the National Park Service as deceptively depicting American history. The new…

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Posted in Civil War Immigrants

Irish Held Captive in Andersonville Prison in Georgia

Damian Shiels is one of the foremost historians of Irish in the American Civil War. In this video he discusses his long-term project investigating the…

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Posted in Civil War Monuments Places to Visit

Civil War Monument in Hightstown New Jersey

Hightstown, New Jersey is a small borough of 5,900 people in Mercer County. Hightstown is withing commuting distance of Manhattan and is in the Raritan…

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Posted in White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics White Terror

Misunderstandings About the “Black Codes”

A misconception I run into when I discuss Reconstruction is that the Black Codes were passed because of the corruption and mismanagement of the governments…

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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…

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Civil War Monument in Cranbury New Jersey

Cranbury, New Jersey is a small township of 3,842 people in the Raritan Valley. It looks almost rural, but it is less than an hour…

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Posted in Civil War Slavery

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…

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