Month: December 2020
New Website Launched With Searchable Database of Enslaved People
Databases of people of African descent held as slaves have been around for a number of years, but a new website that partners Harvard and…
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Smithsonian Magazine’s 10 Best History Books of 2020 Include Several on Civil War and Reconstruction
Every year Smithsonian Magazine releases its list of the Ten Best History Books of the Year. The 2020 list includes several on the Civil War…
An Irish Immigrant Supporter of Lincoln Writes to His Daughter that the 1876 Election Is a Fraud
Patrick Guiney was the colonel commanding the Irish 9th Massachusetts Regiment when he was badly wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness. He would suffer…
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