Author: Patrick Young
Close Look at the Gettysburg Firings By National Park Service
With the firing of over 1,000 staff at the National Park Service, news media coverage is starting to breakdown the overall numbers of people laid…
New Jersey State Museum in Trenton
The New Jersey State Museum is a fairly large modern museum located at 195-205 West State Street in Trenton, the state capital. It is just…
Parks Reduce Services: Call Your Congressperson TODAY to Restore Staff to National Parks
The National Park Service conserves some of the greatest natural wonders and preserves historic and cultural icons in the United States of America. But it…
Call Congress to Support National Park Service Staff In Opposition to Layoffs
On Thursday roughly 1,000 National Park Service (NPS) personnel were fired. While the administration has said these were recent hires, in fact many of the…
The Civil War Origins of the 14th Amendment & Birthright Citizenship Panel Discussion
A couple of weeks ago I was part of a panel discussion put on by Emerging Civil War on the 14th Amendment. It was one…
Emerging Civil War Interviews Gerry Prokopowicz Host of Civil War Talk Radio
Chris Mackowski, host of the Emerging Civil War podcast, interviews the grandaddy of all Civil War podcasters Gerry Prokopowicz. Professor Prokopowicz has been podcasting Civil…
Misunderstandings About the “Black Codes”
A misconception I run into when I discuss Reconstruction is that the Black Codes were passed because of the corruption and mismanagement of the governments…
How Many Union Soldiers Occupied the South During Reconstruction?
Last year, I was talking about researching the Reconstruction Era at a Civil War Roundtable, and a man there said that he loves the Civil…
“Last Seen” Historian Judy Giesberg Talks About Her New Book on Former Slaves Searching for Relatives
On Thursday I had the opportunity to see historian Judith Giesberg being interviewed by Columbia University historian Stephanie McCurry, the author of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in…
Lincoln Return Visit Gettysburg Pennsylvania
There are a half-dozen statues of Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg. It is no wonder, because Gettysburg was where the public recognized that the Union was…
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