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Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parton
Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett PartenĀ published by Simon & Schuster 272 pages (2025) There was…
Civil War Institute Looks at How the Civil War Impacted on America’s Fight in World War II
Last weekend I attended the Civil War Institute which brings together academic historians, public historians, and students of the American Civil War to explore the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
National Park Service Plans to Fire Over 1,000 Staff
According to a memo leaked to the press on Friday, National Park Service leadership briefed park superintendents on Thursday that 1,000 park personnel will be…