Month: August 2023
“Seated Lincoln” in Newark, N.J. by Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mt. Rushmore
“Seated Lincoln” is a sculpture by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor behind the memorial at Mt. Rushmore. Lincoln is seated on a landing of the staircase…
Army Base Named After Civil War Medal of Honor Winner Dr. Mary Walker
Last Friday, the Army renamed Fort A.P. Hill as Fort Walker. Dr. Mary Walker was a Civil War veteran who was the first woman to…
Civil War Nurse Is Honored By Having Savannah Square Named After Her
Susie King Taylor is honored by the City of Savannah by having one of the city’s famous squares named after her. She is the first…
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn Placed Behind a Scaffold
I visited one of America’s major Civil War sites. Grand Army Plaza’s triumphal arch was almost completely covered with plastic coverings and a wooden fence…
William Seward House: Photo Tour of the Home of Lincoln’s Secretary of State
In 2017, I toured the home of William Seward, Lincoln’s Secretary of State, in Auburn, N.Y. in the Finger Lakes Region. The home is an…
NY Times Reviews LINCOLN’S GOD: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz
LINCOLN’S GOD: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz was reviewed recently by Ted Widmer in the New York Times. Here…
The Reconstruction “Enforcement Act of 1870” Has Raised Its Head in Modern America
The Enforcement Act of 1870 was written to protect the democratic system during the Reconstruction Era from white supremacist conspiracies designed to take away the…
General John Sedgwick Memorial in Place Where He Was Born Cornwall, Ct.
On a hot, rainy day in August, 2023, I went to Cornwall Hollow, Ct. to visit the memorial to Union Major General John Sedgwick. Many…
The WashPo Reviews President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear
Historian Garrett M. Graff has a review of the new biography President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear from Simon & Schuster. Here…
Civil War Monument in Boulder, Colorado
My summer trip has taken me through three states out West. When I got to Boulder, Colorado I looked up my sources to see where…
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