Month: March 2023
Gravesite of Adam Badeau Ulysses S. Grant’s Aide in Sleepy Hollow N.Y.
Adam Badeau was born on December 29, 1831 in New York City. He grew up in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow along the banks of the…
New Republic Reviews “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction”
Kidada Williams’s new book I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction is getting reviewed widely. Here are excerpts…
New Civil War Trails Marker in Goldsboro, N.C. on 135th USCT
The City of Goldsboro, North Carolina celebrated the 158th Anniversary of its men taking up arms to free North Carolina from the Confederacy during the…
Gilder Lehrman 2023 Lincoln Prize Awarded to Two Books on Lincoln During Civil War
The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize is among the most prestigious awards in the scholarship of the Civil War. The prize includes a purse of $50,000….
South Bend Museum Opens Exhibit on Grant’s VP Schuyler Colfax
The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana has opened a new permanent exhibit telling the story of Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president Schuyler Colfax. Colfax…
Plymouth Church Brooklyn, Henry Ward Beecher and the Civil War Photo Tour
Although I live on Long Island, I was often in historic Brooklyn to visit Michele. I will be sharing some picture that I took in…
New Yorker on the Fight at the American Historical Association Over President’s Column on Slavery History
New Yorker writer Emma Green has an interesting piece in the New Yorker on the well-publicized article by the president of the American Historical Association…
Phil Sheridan Statue in National Park Dedicated to Stonewall
Philip Sheridan became a national hero during the last two years of the Civil War. A close subordinate of Ulysses S. Grant from the Fall…
Richmond Creating Center on History of Slave Trade at Shockoe Bottom
Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom was a center of the slave trade in the United States. Sales of human beings took place there throughout the 19th…
Kansas Gov. Authorizes New Mural Honoring 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment
The State of Kansas authorized the creation of a mural honoring its first Black Civil War regiment. Here is how the Kansas Reflector reported the…
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