Month: March 2025
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,
This month the 2025 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute was awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River…
Executive Order Looking at Rewriting History at Smithsonian and National Park System
Tonight the President has issued a new Executive Order that identifies the Smithsonian and the National Park Service as deceptively depicting American history. The new…
Civil War Monument in Hightstown New Jersey
Hightstown, New Jersey is a small borough of 5,900 people in Mercer County. Hightstown is withing commuting distance of Manhattan and is in the Raritan…
Misunderstandings About the “Black Codes”
A misconception I run into when I discuss Reconstruction is that the Black Codes were passed because of the corruption and mismanagement of the governments…
Civil War Monument in Cranbury New Jersey
Cranbury, New Jersey is a small township of 3,842 people in the Raritan Valley. It looks almost rural, but it is less than an hour…
Civil War Talk Radio Looks at How Warring Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union
Gerry Prokopowicz interviews noted historian Richard Carwardine, author of “Righteous Strife: How Warring Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union,” on religious nationalism in both the North and…
Civil War Talk Radio Looks at African American Contributions to Intelligence During the Civil War
Gerry Prokopowicz interviews David Welker, author of “African American Intelligence Contributions during the American Civil War.” An article appearing in the International Journal of Intelligence and…
Civil War Talk Radio Focuses on the Confederate Surrender at Bentonville
Gerry Prokopowicz interviews Derrick S. Brown, the operations manager of the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in North Carolina. Here General Sherman forced the surrender…
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews the Author of a New Book on Civil War Video Games
Gerry Prokopowicz discusses the new book Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games with its editor Patrick Lewis. The book looks back…
Female Civil War Nurses Scrubbed from Defense Department’s Web Site
Military.Com has discovered that the Defense Department has scrubbed an article on its web site that detailed the history of women nurses recruited during the…
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