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I Am Interviewed by Home Brew History on Reconstruction, the Black Codes and Even More

I was interviewed by Home Brew History on the Reconstruction Era, the Black Codes, and the Ku Klux Klan. You can watch the interview below:…

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Memorial Day 1870 in New York City

Memorial Day, also called “Decoration Day,” was celebrated throughout the North on May 30, 1870. Just five years after the Civil War the day was,…

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National Park Visitors Asked to Report Rangers for Making Negative Comments on U.S. History

This week visitors to the National Park Service’s parks around the country began seeing signs going up telling them to report any derogation of the…

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German Monument Comfort Texas: One of the First Civil War Monuments in Texas

Back in the 1980s I was traveling from Austin to the border with Mexico when I came upon the 1866 Civil War monument in Comfort,…

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Statue of Alexander Webb at City College of New York

The City College of New York (CCNY) is one of the most famous educational institutions in New York City. It was founded in 1847 and…

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Posted in Abolitionists African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Book Reviews Civil War

Tom Watson Brown Award for Best Civil War Book Goes to “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War”

The Society of Civil War Historians announced that Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is the recipient of the 2025 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. Dr. Fields-Black…

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Damian Shiels on the Actual Irish During the Civil War-Not Just the Irish Brigade

Damian Shiels, the noted Irish scholar on the American Civil War, gave a lecture on May 8, 2025 at New York University  (NYU) in Manhattan….

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Melvin Memorial to Three Ordinary Soldiers Concord Massachusetts

Before the 250th Anniversary of the start of the Revolution, my wife and I visited Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. During my planning for the…

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Wiley-Silver Prize Awarded to Cecily Zander for The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era

Cecily Zander, an Assistant Professor of History at Texas Woman’s University, has won the Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book by a scholar on…

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National Park Service Sites That Are At Risk of Closing

The Trump administration has proposed a 38% cut in funding for the National Park Service (NPS). This would be a cut of more $1.2 Billion…

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