Author: Patrick Young
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Two Civil War Books Win Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and History
On May 5 the announcement came of Pulitzer Prizes. Two books largely dealing with the Civil War, won awards. The winner for Fiction was James…
Federal Government Proposes 38% Cut in Funds to National Parks and Closing Some Down
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…
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Hackensack New Jersey
I was at a funeral in Hackensack, New Jersey and I found that near the funeral home there was a Civil War monument. Usually I…
Sherman’s March Helped Bring a Georgia Family Together
When Major General William Tecumseh Sherman began his March to the Sea on November 15, 1864, many Georgians greeted the Union armies as deliverers from…
Indiana Lt. Governor Praises “3/5ths Compromise” to U.S. Constitution Which Supported Slavery
Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith of Indiana went on record to praise the “3/5ths Compromise” in the United States Constitution. He did it when Democrats compared…