Month: September 2025
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews Jerilyn Lee on the U.S. Colored Troops
Jerilyn Lee, author of “The Kinship of War: Stories of the United States Colored Troops” is interviewed by Gerry Prokopowicz of Civil War Talk Radio….
Information About Slavery “Scrubbed” from Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta, where the house that one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement grew up in…
Video Politics & Memory in Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York
Akela Reason from the University of Georgia speaks about the building of Civil War monuments in New York City and Brooklyn. After Gettysburg, New York…
End of the Oregon Trail Museum Oregon City, Oregon
“You died from dysentery.” The Oregon Trail would seem like it did not have much to do with the Civil War, but the trail was…
Video: The War Over Memory at Bull Run Battlefield
Historian Tyler McGraw has a good video at Emerging Civil War where he discusses the impending removal of signage explaining the history behind the erection…
The Demise of Book Reviews on the Civil War and Reconstruction
If you, like me, spent time every Sunday morning looking in our local newspaper twenty years ago at the book reviews to get ideas about…
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in NYC Loses Material on Slavery
The Washington Post reports today that “a display at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York City was taken down for making reference to historical…
Ft. Sum(p)ter Artillery in Portland, Oregon(?)
My wife Michele and I were out in Portland, Oregon exploring the Colombia River Gorge. She was doing some research and found out that there…
The Signage at Manassas That Is Slated for Removal by the National Park Service
I went to the Bull Run Battlefield at Manassas, Virginia last year and saw the new signage near the Stonewall Jackson Equestrian Statue on Henry…
Beginning September 17, 2025 Some References to Slavery Will Be Removed from Civil War Sites Under the National Park Service
The New York Times is reporting that this week the National Park Service will begin taking down objects and signs that deal with slavery. This…