Month: November 2025
The Past, Present, and Future of the Civil War: Three Experts Discuss
Every year on November 19, the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg College presents the Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture. This year the topic was “The Past,…
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shiels published by LSU Press 318 pages (2025) Damian Shiels has been researching…
Podcast on the Ethics of Civil War History for the Historian and Parks
John R. Heckman (The Tatooed Historian) and Jonathan Noyalas, director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute, join Chris Mackowski on the Emerging Civil War…
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Providence, Rhode Island
Kennedy Square in Providence, Rhode Island is a major bus terminal for the whole city. The City Hall, erected in 1878 and the Federal Court…
Best Books on Reconstruction of 2025
Every year I published a list of the best books on Reconstruction. I like telling you which volumes published over the previous twelve months are…
Chester A. Arthur Statue Madison Square Park New York City
Madison Square Park on Manhattan is an attractive public space. It has several statues on exhibit including Saint-Gaudens’s Admiral David Farragut and Republican Senator Roscoe…
Movie Review: Death By Lightning Series on the Garfield Assassination
This major four-hour series on the assassination of James A. Garfield starts at the future president’s farm in rural Ohio. Michael Shannon plays Congressman Garfield…
“Death By Lightning” About Pres. Garfield’s Assassination Gets Good Reviews
The 1881 assassination of James Garfield by a deranged office seeker is the topic of the new Netflix series Death By Lightning. It was released…
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard published by Doubleday (2011) Usually I don’t…
Damian Shiels Talks About His New Book “Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865”
Gerry Prokopowicz of Civil Wat Talk Radio has an very revealing discussion with our old friend Damian Shiels talk about his new book “Green and…