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Today Is The Rally for the National Parks at Gettysburg

Today is the rally for the National Parks at Gettysburg. So far this year nearly 13% of National Park staff have either resigned or received…

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Rod O’Barr and the Lost Cause Use of Evidence

 

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Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke

Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862–1863 by Eric Michael Burke published by Louisiana State University Press (2022) Note: This page is…

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Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parton

This page is under construction and should be finished by March 30, 2025. Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation…

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Historian Elizabeth Varon on Replacing History With Myth at Appomattox

Elizabeth Varon is a noted Civil War historian at the University of Virginia. Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War…

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Outcry Against National Park for Altering the History of the Underground Railroad Succeeds!

The outcry against the National Park Service over its altering of the history of the Underground Railroad on its website has succeeded, at least for…

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New Yorker on President Trump’s Take on History

David Remnick the editor of the New Yorker, has written an article on President Donald Trump’s assault on American history. This article appeared in the…

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Federal Government Stops Payment on Grants to History, Arts, Sciences, and Other Museums and Sites

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced yesterday that previously awarded grants will no longer be fulfilled. These go to historic sites, libraries, museums…

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Posted in Civil War Memory of Reconstruction White Supremacy Apologetics

David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian

David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…

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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…

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