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Around the Web May 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

As you may know, I was ill with a life-threatening condition in March and April, which gave me plenty of time to lay in bed…

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Manisha Sinha Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for Work on Reconstruction Era

Manisha Sinha, history professor at the University of Connecticut, was one of five history scholars selected for Guggenheim Fellowships for 2022. She will use the…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil Rights Acts

Kate Masur’s Excellent Book Pulitzer Finalist: “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction,”

Although the Pulitzer Prize for history went to a book on 18th Century Native American relations with English colonists and another on Cuba, Kate Masur’s…

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Posted in Civil War Lost Cause Memory of Reconstruction

Exhibit “Mustering Memory: 160 Years of Saluting the Civil War” Looks at How the War has Been Remembered Over the Years

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museum is opening a new exhibit on how the Civil War has been remembered over the years. Civil…

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Posted in Civil War Myths of Reconstruction

American Civil War Museum in Richmond Opening New Theater

The American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, is opening a new theater at its Tredegar site in June. The Richmond Times Dispatch has a…

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Posted in Lincoln Monuments

Lincoln Memorial Centennial Celebration May 2022

This month marks the Centennial of the opening of the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service has a number of events planned for the celebration…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Monuments U.S. Grant

Peekskill NY Commemorates Grant Bicentennial May 6-8

The Lincoln Depot in Peekskill, N.Y. will commemorate the 200th Birthday of Ulysses S. Grant the first weekend in May at its historic train depot…

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Posted in U.S. Grant

Watch Video of Grant Bicentennial at Grant’s Tomb Including Brooks Simpson Keynote on Grant and Reconstruction

The video of the commemoration of the Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial at Grant’s Tomb has been posted. It shows the full ceremony, including the West…

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Senate Passes Resolution on Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial

The United States Senate passed a bipartisan resolution last week honoring the 200th Birthday of Ulysses S. Grant originally proposed by Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown…

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Grant 200th Birthday in Galena, Illinois Beginning April 29 through May 1

The Galena and Grant Museum in Illinois is holding a number of events honoring Ulysses S. Grant for his 200th Birthday. The text is from…

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