Author: Patrick Young
Protest at Gettysburg Against National Park Cutbacks
As many of you know, the National Park Service has either fired or had staff members take early retirement for more than 10% of the…
Civil War Dead Monument of Concord Massachusetts
I went to Concord, Massachusetts for the 250th Anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War. As you likely know, the first actions of that…
DOGE Stops Funding of Whitney Plantation Which Tells the Story of Enslaved Blacks
The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana was founded in 1752. It contained dozens of enslaved African Americans until the Civil War broke out. In 2014…
DOGE Is Given Even More Power Over National Parks and Historic Sites
DOGE has reduced staffing at the National Park Service by more than 10% over the last three months, but on Thursday Interior Secretary Doug Burgum…
Civil War Monuments at Lexington, Massachusetts-Where the Revolution Started
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on April 19, 1775, two hundred and fifty years ago. This is the start of the Revolutionary…
Federal Government Stops Funding “National History Day” Just Nine Weeks Before It Is To Take Place
The president has stopped funding for National History Day just nine weeks before the event takes place. National History Day had already gotten contracts for…
Civil War Sesquicentennial Monument Cranbury New Jersey
In my search for Civil War monuments, I have visited many that were erected soon after Appomattox, but I have also discovered quite a few…
NPS Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Database No Longer Being Updated
The National Park Service has maintained a website for years where people can type in a name, typically of an ancestor, and get fairly good…
Emerging Civil War Discussion of Slave Trading in the South During the Civil War
Emerging Civil War Podcasts includes a discussion of Chris Mackowski with Dr. Robert K. D. Colby on slave trading in the Civil War and his…
National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad (and it ain’t good)
The new administration has made a lot of changes in how the National Park Service (NPS), the military, and other agencies present American history. Today’s…