Author: Patrick Young
Female Civil War Nurses Scrubbed from Defense Department’s Web Site
Military.Com has discovered that the Defense Department has scrubbed an article on its web site that detailed the history of women nurses recruited during the…
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…
Vicksburg Has Lost 32% of Its Staff Under DOGE Cuts
Vicksburg National Military Park has lost 7 full-time staff members out of a staff of 22. 32% of the staff has been laid off at…
Grant Aide Ely Parker Removed from Pentagon Web Site
Ulysses S. Grant’s aide, Seneca Tonawanda Native American Ely Parker, was profiled on the Defense Department’s website as an historical portrait. The Washington Post revealed…
National Park Archeologists for South Fired-10 Out of 17 Were Let Go
A unit of archeologists based in Florida, but whose work is throughout the states of the old Confederacy east of the Mississippi River, has seen…
New Talking Points Issued to National Park Service Staffers on Describing Recent Firings
ProPublica reports that late in February National Parks sites across the country received an email on “talking points” after the round of firings of staff…
Frederick Douglass Our Composite Nation Exhibit New-York Historical Society
The life-sized figure of Frederick Douglass in the interior of the New-York Historical Society is not painting, it is a statue that is exactly based…
Judge Orders Fired National Park Service Staff Back to Work-Appeal Likely
A Federal District Court Judge has issued an order today that may return fired National Park Employees (NPS) to their jobs. The NPS is part…
Arlington National Cemetery Website Deletes Civil War & Black, Hispanic, and Women Webpages
The military affairs journal Task & Purpose writes that Arlington Cemetery has made changes to its website in recent weeks. Webpages that were devoted to…
Civil War Camp Nelson in Kentucky Loses Nearly a Quarter of Staff
Three full-time staffers at Camp Nelson in Kentucky have been fired as a result of the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” This National Park Service site…
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