Month: February 2024
Long Island Black Civil War Soldier to Have Marker Placed Near His Oyster Bay House
Long Island’s Town of Oyster Bay will unveil an historical marker on Carll Hill Road telling the story behind the naming of the road. David…
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie NY
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie, N.Y. is a church that goes back before the time of the Civil War. The church is…
Robert Smalls, Heroic Escaped Slave, Learned to Read & Told His Opinions
A new article in the Smithsonian Magazine offers some insights into Robert Smalls from his teacher in South Carolina. In 1862, Smalls, and enslaved pilot,…
Fergus M. Bordewich Author of “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” Is on Civil War Talk Radio Podcast
Fergus M. Bordewich, author of “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” is on Civil War Talk Radio with Gerry Prokopowicz….
Old Soldiers Still Can Love Young Women-A Confederate Soldier’s Home Tale
Here is an interesting story from Rusty Williams, a scholar of Confederate soldiers’ homes, on the home in Oklahoma. The home admitted Confederate veterans and…
Sojourner Truth Memorial at Northampton, Mass.
In the Summer I went up into the Hudson Valley to see a statue of Sojourner Truth as a young woman. In the Fall I…
Gerry Prokopowicz has author Matthew Christopher Hulbert on to Discuss His New Book “Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War”
Gerry Prokopowicz has author Matthew Christopher Hulbert on to discuss his new book “Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War”….
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909 By Raymond James
Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909. By Raymond James Krohn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023, 288 pp. Paperback $35.00….
Harriet Tubman’s Church Auburn N.Y. Photo Tour
Harriet Tubman today is an iconic figure of resistance to slavery, fighting for the Union to abolish slavery, and caring for Black veterans who served…
“Mystic Lincoln” Statue in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park
I know a fair amount about the Civil War and Reconstruction monuments that I visit long before I go to photograph them. I started this…
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