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Forida’s History Education Standards on Slavery Ignore Their Own Expert Reviewers

The Miami Herald has uncovered how Florida has tried to cover up the state’s treatment of Black people. Reporters Ana Ceballos and Alyssa Johnson say…

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NY Times Reviews LINCOLN’S GOD: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz

LINCOLN’S GOD: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz was reviewed recently by Ted Widmer in the New York Times. Here…

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The WashPo Reviews President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear

Historian Garrett M. Graff has a review of the new biography President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear from Simon & Schuster. Here…

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Posted in Civil War

Myths of the Gettysburg Campaign Explained by Tim Smith

Tim Smith of the Adams County Historical Society in Gettysburg is an expert on the battle. This short video helps explain how certain myths have…

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Around the Web July 2023: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

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Posted in Abolitionists Frederick Douglass Places to Visit

Exhibit on Frederick Douglass Opened in Washington’s National Portrait Galley

A new exhibit on Frederick Douglass has opened at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Galley in Washington. It will be open until April 21, 2024. Here…

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Posted in Civil Rights Acts Places to Visit

Beaufort, S.C. Reconstruction Era National Park Opens New Exhibit on South Carolina Civil Rights from Reconstruction Onward

A new travelling exhibition opens on July 15, 2023 at Reconstruction Era National Park in South Carolina. According to Explore Beaufort: A traveling exhibition that…

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Posted in U.S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant Cottage Offers 4th of July Celebration

If you are looking for something historic for 4th of July, you might want to go to the celebration at Grant Cottage above Saratoga in…

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Rare Opportunity to See “Juneteenth” and the Emancipation Proclamation at National Archives on June 19

Tomorrow is the last day the special exhibit displaying the Union Army order that was distributed in Galveston on June 19, 1865 and the Emancipation…

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Long Island Black Civil War Naval Landsman Gets Headstone for Juneteenth

The Society of  Grand Army of the Republic dedicated a veteran’s Civil War headstone over a previously unmarked gravesite at the Hauppauge United Methodist Church…

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