Month: June 2024
Kentuckian Episcopalians Ask Church to Denounce Civil War Leader Rev. James Craik
Rev. James Craik was an important figure in the Episcopal church in the United States at the time of the Civil War. He was an…
Ronald White on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute Podcast
Ronald C White spoke on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute. He recently published his new book “On Great Fields: The Life and…
Newly Erected Clara Barton Statue Hagerstown Maryland
Anyone who knows about the Battles of Gettysburg or Antietam has heard of Hagerstown, Maryland but I wonder how many “Civil War Tourists” have stopped…
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle published by Princeton University Press (2024) Don Doyle’s new book…
NPS Announces Seven New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
The National Park Service announced this month the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. “This national network connects sites…
Civil War Institute: Did Civil War Soldiers Hide the Real War? Podcast
Walt Whitman said that the real war would never get in the books. This panel of historians confronts the primary sources of the Civil War,…
West Point Foundry at Cold Spring New York Where the Parrott Gun Was Developed
In 2013 the new West Point Foundry Preserve opened in Cold Spring, New York right next to the Hudson River. Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects designed…
Civil War Institute: Irish in the Civil War with Ryan Keating
Ryan Keating lectured on Irish in the American Civil War during the Civil War Institute. Keating is a professor of history at California State University…
Civil War Institute: Gettysburg’s 50th Anniversary Reunion of Blue and Gray with Thomas Flagel
Thomas R. Flagel is associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee. At his lecture at the Civil War Institute last weekend…
Southold N.Y. Civil War Monument Photo Tour on Long Island’s North Fork
Southold is a developing town on Long Island’s hopping North Fork. Five decades ago it was a rarely visited remote rural community. Today, that is…
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