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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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Posted in Civil War Podcast Podcasts

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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Podcast: Ron White on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

I was at the Civil War Institute over the weekend in Gettysburg. There was recording of some of the events. Here is the podcast recording…

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Civil War Institute: Lincoln & Immigration with Harold Holzer

Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration by Harold Holzer is one of the most talked-about Civil War books of 2024. Here…

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Harriet Tubman Statue in Beaufort, S.C. Unveiled Honoring Her Role in Civil War

A new statue of Harriet Tubman has been unveiled in Beaufort, South Carolina for her role in the Combahee River Raid that freed 700 South…

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Gerry Prokopowicz talks to Dr. Cecily Zander on Anti-Militarism in the North During the Civil War

Gerry Prokopowicz, host of Civil War Talk Radio, interviews Dr. Cecily N. Zander. She is the author of The Army Under Fire: The Politics of…

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Harriet Jacobs’s Brother’s “Slave Narrative” Comes to Light After Being Lost for 164 Years

In today’s New York Times Jennifer Schuessler tells the story of a long-lost “slave narrative” that was just published by the University of Chicago Press….

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