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Rachel Powell, Far-Right Activist in Gettysburg Occupation, Reports to Jail for January 6th Conviction
Rachel Powell, who was a leader in the far-right occupation of Gettysburg on July 4, 2020, has reported to jail this week to finish her…
Former President Trump Says Civil War Could Have Been Avoided Through Negotiation
Former President Donald Trump just involved himself in the historiography of the Civil War during a speech in Iowa today. It was not an event…
Podcast: Scott Hartwig Discusses His Book “I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign”
The Battle of Antietam is the single bloodiest one-day battle in American history. PreservePodcast interviews D. Scott Hartwig about his new, award winning, book “I…
New York Times Reviews “LONGSTREET: The Confederate General Who Defied the South”
The new book by Elizabeth Varon on Confederate General James Longstreet was recently reviewed in the New York Times by Brenda Wineapple. Here are some…
Longstreet National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2024/01/james-longstreets-other-war/ Allen Guelzo By ALLEN C. GUELZO November 30, 2023 4:53 PM 1 CommentListen Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, by Elizabeth R. Varon…
Texas Historical Commission Removes Books on Slavery and Race from Historic Sites
The Varner-Hogg plantation near Houston was a sugar plantation that was worked by sixty-six enslaved African Americans in the early 19th Century. It is a…
NY Times Reviews “LONGSTREET: The Confederate General Who Defied the South,” by Elizabeth R. Varon
The New York Times has a review of the hot Civil War and Reconstruction book of the Winter. The review is done by Brenda Wineapple,…
The Failure to Convict Jefferson Davis for Insurrection
Historian Jill Lepore has an interesting article on the New Yorker website on the failure to convict Confederate President Jefferson Davis after the Civil War….
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration & Preservation In Reconstruction America- Megan Kate Nelson
The following hour-long audio lecture was delivered on Sunday, June 11, 2023 by Dr. Megan Kate Nelson at the 2023 CWI Summer Conference at Gettysburg…
Four New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
Last month the National Park Service issued this announcement of four new sites added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network: BEAUFORT, SC- The National…
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