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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha published by Liveright Press (2024) Manisha Sinha is the author of…

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Memorial Episode of Civil War Talk on Death of Historian Peter Carmichael (Podcast)

I had only met Peter Carmichael once. I had run into him at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College in June. Arnoldo Vazquez, and…

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Irish Monument to the American Civil War

My wife and I were in Ireland in August and, of course, we found Civil War-related sites at the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean….

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Civil War Talk Radio Interviews Edda L. Fields-Black Author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Host Gerald Prokopowicz of Civil War Talk Podcast interviews Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during…

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Abraham Lincoln Statue at Gettysburg Visitors Center

You would expect Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg and I am sure many readers recall seeing Lincoln downtown in this Civil War city. That statue, which…

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Gettysburg Cyclorama

In June I visited the Gettysburg Cyclorama. The Cyclorama is a gigantic round painting of “Pickett’s Charge” in which the audience stands in the middle…

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Gettysburg National Military Park Museum

Most Civil War students who live in the Eastern United States will have visited the museum at the Gettysburg National Military Park at some point…

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Grant and Sheridan at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland

Usually I am bringing you sites of the Civil War and Reconstruction from within the 50 States, but this week I am in Ireland. There…

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Cornwall New York Civil War Monument

Cornwall-on-Hudson is a small river village with just over three thousand people in Orange County below Newburgh. It is an affluent community with many buildings…

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Jefferson Davis Explains Why Mississippi Seceded from the United States in His Farewell Address to the Senate

On January 21, 1861, Mississippi Senator Jeff Davis gave his speech resigning from the United States Senate. The entire speech can be read here, beginning…

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