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New Report on Fort Sumter Being Threatened With Flooding

  Fort Sumter is subsiding an inch every six to seven years according to Woodwell Climate. The sea level will rise  1.21 ft by 2050…

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90th Pennsylvania Monument at Antietam “A Hot Place”

The 90th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was raised in Philadelphia in September of 1861. The regiment saw it first large-scale combat during the Second Battle of…

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Chambersburg’s Memorial Fountain for Union Troops & “The Burning of Chambersburg”

The women’s groups of Franklin County, Pennsylvania met on Memorial Day in 1868 and agreed they wanted to honor their men for serving in the…

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Podcast: Author George Saunders on His Novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” About Lincoln After the Death of His Son

A novel about Lincoln was ranked as one of the best books of the 21st Century by the New York Times. Here is the Book…

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The Map of the Battle of Liberty Place

Map source: Rare Maps The “Battle of Liberty Place” was an armed coup by the White League of Louisiana to reimpose “White Only” governance in…

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Bryan House a Black Refuge at Gettysburg

Abraham Brian was a free Black man who owned this farm near where Pickett’s Charge ended on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg…

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Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware

For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…

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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha published by Liveright Press (2024) Manisha Sinha is the author of…

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Memorial Episode of Civil War Talk on Death of Historian Peter Carmichael (Podcast)

I had only met Peter Carmichael once. I had run into him at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College in June. Arnoldo Vazquez, and…

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Irish Monument to the American Civil War

My wife and I were in Ireland in August and, of course, we found Civil War-related sites at the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean….

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