Author: Patrick Young
Best Books on Reconstruction of 2025
Every year I published a list of the best books on Reconstruction. I like telling you which volumes published over the previous twelve months are…
Chester A. Arthur Statue Madison Square Park New York City
Madison Square Park on Manhattan is an attractive public space. It has several statues on exhibit including Saint-Gaudens’s Admiral David Farragut and Republican Senator Roscoe…
Movie Review: Death By Lightning Series on the Garfield Assassination
This major four-hour series on the assassination of James A. Garfield starts at the future president’s farm in rural Ohio. Michael Shannon plays Congressman Garfield…
“Death By Lightning” About Pres. Garfield’s Assassination Gets Good Reviews
The 1881 assassination of James Garfield by a deranged office seeker is the topic of the new Netflix series Death By Lightning. It was released…
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard published by Doubleday (2011) Usually I don’t…
Damian Shiels Talks About His New Book “Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865”
Gerry Prokopowicz of Civil Wat Talk Radio has an very revealing discussion with our old friend Damian Shiels talk about his new book “Green and…
Roswell Textile Mills Georgia Where Confederate Cloth Was Manufactured
Roswell was a Georgia textile town before the Civil War. Once the war started, the Confederate government contracted with the mills to produce a wide…
Confederate Gen. Albert Pike Statue Re-erected in Washington
Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike statue was re-erected in Washington on Saturday following an executive order from President Donald Trump. The statue had been attacked…
Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek
Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek Farrar, Straus and Giroux pages 320 (2025) Stanford White…
Pete Hegseth’s Religious Advisor Rev. Doug Wilson: More on Civil War and Slavery
Back in August I posted several articles on Pete Hegseth’s religious advisor. Doug Wilson is the head of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC)…