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Federal Government Stops Funding “National History Day” Just Nine Weeks Before It Is To Take Place

The president has stopped funding for National History Day just nine weeks before the event takes place. National History Day had already gotten contracts for…

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Civil War Sesquicentennial Monument Cranbury New Jersey

In my search for Civil War monuments, I have visited many that were erected soon after Appomattox, but I have also discovered quite a few…

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NPS Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Database No Longer Being Updated

The National Park Service has maintained a website for years where people can type in a name, typically of an ancestor, and get fairly good…

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Posted in Civil War Slavery

Emerging Civil War Discussion of Slave Trading in the South During the Civil War

Emerging Civil War Podcasts includes a discussion of Chris Mackowski with Dr. Robert K. D. Colby on slave trading in the Civil War and his…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Underground Railroad

National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad (and it ain’t good)

The new administration has made a lot of changes in how the National Park Service (NPS), the military, and other agencies present American history. Today’s…

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National Museum of African American History & Culture

I was going to roll-out this article in May, but because of the president’s unparalleled attack on the National Museum African American History and Culture…

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Executive Order Looking at Rewriting History at Smithsonian and National Park System

Tonight the President has issued a new Executive Order that identifies the Smithsonian and the National Park Service as deceptively depicting American history. The new…

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Civil War Monument in Hightstown New Jersey

Hightstown, New Jersey is a small borough of 5,900 people in Mercer County. Hightstown is withing commuting distance of Manhattan and is in the Raritan…

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Posted in White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics White Terror

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…

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Civil War Monument in Cranbury New Jersey

Cranbury, New Jersey is a small township of 3,842 people in the Raritan Valley. It looks almost rural, but it is less than an hour…

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