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James: A Novel by Percival Everett

James: A Novel by Percival Everett published by Doubleday (2024) I read a lot of books. Right before my stroke, I was reading more than…

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Civil War Monument in Pittsfield Mass. Where Ball Playing Was Not Allowed!

Pittsfield, Massachusetts is an old mill town in the Western part of the state, just a half-hour away from Albany. I drove through snow in…

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Freeport Memorial Library on Long Island, N.Y.

Freeport is a lively village on Long Island’s South Shore. It has slips that access the Great South Bay and it is just a bridge…

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Bridgeport Ct. Mountain Grove Cemetery Pro Patria Monument

Bridgeport was a fairly modest city at the time of the Civil War. It was known as a developing mill town and a shipping port…

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Chappaqua Friends Meeting House a Refuge for Escaped Slaves

The Chappaqua Friends Meeting was built in 1753 by a group of transplanted Long Islanders who set up the first Quaker community in Westchester County…

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Great Falls National Historic Park at Paterson NJ

Typically I take you to monuments constructed to mark historic events or to honor people directly involved in Reconstruction or the Civil War. However, I…

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Podcast: Harold Holzer Talks About His New Book on Lincoln and the Immigrants

Gerry Prokopowicz, host of Civil War Talk Radio, interviews Harold Holzer, author of “Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.” The discussion…

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Union Memorial at Greenfield Cemetery Near Hempstead, N.Y.

Although I have worked in Hempstead for over thirty-five years, I did not know that a cemetery on the border between Uniondale and Hempstead has…

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Charles Curie Bust in Paterson NJ

The Charles Curie Bust in Paterson, New Jersey’s Eastside Park is not a figure that many of us could identify, let along tie to the…

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Yale University Civil War Memorial Hall

In 1895, the Yale Daily News, a student newspaper, began campaigning for Yale to honor its students who fought and died in the Civil War…

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