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Chappaqua Friends Meeting House a Refuge for Escaped Slaves
The Chappaqua Friends Meeting was built in 1753 by a group of transplanted Long Islanders who set up the first Quaker community in Westchester County…
Great Falls National Historic Park at Paterson NJ
Typically I take you to monuments constructed to mark historic events or to honor people directly involved in Reconstruction or the Civil War. However, I…
Podcast: Harold Holzer Talks About His New Book on Lincoln and the Immigrants
Gerry Prokopowicz, host of Civil War Talk Radio, interviews Harold Holzer, author of “Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.” The discussion…
Union Memorial at Greenfield Cemetery Near Hempstead, N.Y.
Although I have worked in Hempstead for over thirty-five years, I did not know that a cemetery on the border between Uniondale and Hempstead has…
Freeport Memorial Library on Long Island, N.Y.
Freeport is a lively village on Long Island’s South Shore. It has slips that access the Great South Bay and it is just a bridge…
Charles Curie Bust in Paterson NJ
The Charles Curie Bust in Paterson, New Jersey’s Eastside Park is not a figure that many of us could identify, let along tie to the…
Bridgeport Ct. Mountain Grove Cemetery Pro Patria Monument
Bridgeport was a fairly modest city at the time of the Civil War. It was known as a developing mill town and a shipping port…
Lincoln’s Handwritten Copy of the Preliminary Emancipation on Display at NY State Museum in Albany Until March 3, 2024
I went to the New York State Museum in Albany today. I had heard that the museum was displaying its copy of the Preliminary Emancipation…
Yale University Civil War Memorial Hall
In 1895, the Yale Daily News, a student newspaper, began campaigning for Yale to honor its students who fought and died in the Civil War…
The Early History of Yale University Was Set Among Puritan Slavery
I am just now reading David Blight’s history Yale and Slavery which can be accessed for free online. Here are things I learned from the…
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