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Harriet Tubman Statue Unveiled Next to John Brown’s Grave in Lake Placid

Harriet Tubman and John Brown were two leading figures in the anti-slavery movement in New York. Tubman lived in Auburn, New York and Brown’s farm was…

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NY Times Book Review Podcast Discusses “James” a Novel Based on Jim from “Huck Finn”

The New York Times has a new “Book Club” discussion of Percival Everett’s novel James which tells us the story of Jim from Mark Twain’s…

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Two Civil War Soldiers Given Medals of Honor for Losing Their Lives During “General” Train Capture

Yesterday, Privates Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson bestowed with the Medal of Honor for their participation in the “The Great Locomotive Chase” which…

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Two Union Soldiers from the “Great Locomotive Chase” Will Receive Medal of Honor July 3, 2024

Two Union soldiers involved in the stealing of a locomotive behind Confederate lines on April 12, 1862 will be given a posthumous Medal of Honor…

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Ronald White on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute Podcast

Ronald C White spoke on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute. He recently published his new book “On Great Fields: The Life and…

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NPS Announces Seven New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

The National Park Service announced this month the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. “This national network connects sites…

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Civil War Institute: Did Civil War Soldiers Hide the Real War? Podcast

Walt Whitman said that the real war would never get in the books. This panel of historians confronts the primary sources of the Civil War,…

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Civil War Institute: Irish in the Civil War with Ryan Keating

Ryan Keating lectured on Irish in the American Civil War during the Civil War Institute. Keating is a professor of history at California State University…

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Civil War Institute: Gettysburg’s 50th Anniversary Reunion of Blue and Gray with Thomas Flagel

Thomas R. Flagel is associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee. At his lecture at the Civil War Institute last weekend…

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Civil War Institute Podcast: John Pope & the Massacre of the Sioux

Cecily N. Zander is a historian at Texas Woman’s University. She spoke at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg last weekend describing General Pope’s attacks…

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