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Sheffield, Mass. Unveiling Statue Today of Woman Who Helped End Slavery in Massachusetts
Sheffield, Mass. will be the scene of the unveiling of a statue of Elizabeth Freeman, a Black woman whose courageous actions led to the abolition…
1873 Colfax Massacre Subject of New Public Broadcasting Film
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded it largest grant in a newly announced set of funds to a new feature-length documentary called The Colfax…
New Florida Teacher Training Now Ignores Reconstruction Says News Report
Tampa’s News Channel 8 reports that the new curriculum trainings for Florida social studies teachers leaves out the Reconstruction Era. The trainings, organized by the…
Concert Celebrating U.S. Grant Trip Around the World After His Presidency August 18
The Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site near St. Louis has been holding concerts recalling Grant’s trip around the world after his presidency. The concerts…
The Fifteen Most Popular Civil War/Reconstruction Related National Historic Sites
A National Historic Site (NHS) is a nationally recognized site, usually centered around a single building, recognized by the National Park Service as a site of…
Kent Masterson Brown Wins Emerging Civil War Book Award for “Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command”.
Kent Masterson Brown has won the Emerging Civil War Book Award for his new volume Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command. According to the…
August 8th Celebrated in Tennessee as Day of Liberation of Slaves
Today was celebrated in Tennessee as the beginning of the end of slavery in the state. While Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in…
Grant Bicentennial Commemoration August 13 & 14 in Quincy, Illinois
The Grant Bicentennial will be marked on Saturday, Aug. 13 and Sunday, Aug. 14 in Quincy, Illinois, where Ulysses S. Grant first marched off to…
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Confederate Apologist Appointee Resigns
Last week I wrote about Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s naming of Ann Hunter McLean of Richmond to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. McLean went…
“Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the Civil War” Wins Organization of American Historians Book Award
The 2022 Organization of American Historians award for Civil War and Reconstruction Books went to Lorien Foote of Texas A&M University for her Rites of…
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