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Lee’s Army Moves Towards Gettysburg: Black Refugees Flee
When Confederate troops began slipping west and north of the Union army for their June 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, no one worried more about the…
Iron Brigade Immigrants Go Into Battle the First Day at Gettysburg
On the warm morning of July 1, 1863, the men of the 6th Wisconsin Regiment of the Iron Brigade were among the closest to danger of the…
Iron Brigade Immigrants Arrive at Gettysburg
On July 1, 1863, the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment arrived in Gettysburg. A battle between a large Confederate force and a Union cavalry division had been waged…
An Irish Soldier Between Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
The Union loss at Chancellorsville was felt on the home front as well as on the battlefield. For the immigrant soldier Peter Welsh, the home front…
Organization of American Historians Report Says That Administration Is Trying to Distort History
The Organization of American Historians has just issued a report detailing the new Administration’s attempts to distort history to place it in line with Donald…
Monument to the Immigrants Who Died in Long Island Shipwreck
Many of us have swum off Nassau Beach at Nickerson County Park in Long Beach. If you had been there in the second and third…
South Carolina Senator Describing the Hamburg Massacre Marking America’s 100 Birthday on July 4, 1876 As Victory for White Supremacy
Here is how the Red Shirts, a clandestine terrorist group, celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. The…
Appeals Court Says Interior Department May Resume Taking Down Slavery Info at President’s House Philadelphia
In a major win for the Trump Administration, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an order from a Federal District Court halting the removal…
Grave of General John C. Fremont Pathfinder of the West and Jessie Benton Fremont
If I was to ask you where John C. Fremont was buried, you might answer “In the Rocky Mountains?” Makes sense. Fremont was the “Pathfinder…
Manisha Sinha presents “A New History of Abolition and Emancipation” on Friday June 19 at 7 p.m. at Cazenovia
Manisha Sinha, an Indian-born American historian and author, will present “A New History of Abolition and Emancipation” on Friday, June 19, at 7 p.m., at…