Author: Patrick Young
About That “Wall Street Journal” Article Showing Declining Interest in Civil War
Three years ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that Civil War battlefields were losing ground as tourist draws. Within days, Civil War…
General George Thomas Grave in Troy, NY
I recently travelled to Troy, New York to visit the city’s Historic Oakwood Cemetery. The graveyard is best known where Uncle Sam’s grave is, but…
Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn
I visited the second largest Civil War monument in New York. Grand Army Plaza is a massive memorial series covering 11 acres at the…
Poll Finds Americans Want Their Students to Learn More About the Civil War and Know More on Reconstruction (Poll Part IV)
This is the fourth and final installment in my series looking at the YouGov survey just released on Americans attitudes towards the Civil War and Reconstruction. The first…
Poll Shows Who Americans Regard As Favorite Personality of the Civil War Era (Part III)
This is the third in my series at looking at the YouGov survey just released on Americans attitudes towards the Civil War and Reconstruction. The…
Poll Looks at Who Was Responsible for the Civil War (Part II)
This is the second article on a new YouGov poll of a thousand Americans on the Civil War and Reconstruction. The first article looked at…
New Poll Examines How Americans Look at Civil War
A new YouGov poll looked at how Americans thought about slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. With renewed controversy about American history, the poll shows…
Walt Whitman Birthplace Huntington in Huntington, N.Y.
Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry is among the literary heritage of the conflict. His work as a nurse in New York and in army hospitals…
Monument to Man Killed Trying to Reverse Reconstruction to Be “Contextualized” in Hamburg
The July 1876 Hamburg Massacre was part of a series of terrorist acts planned by the supporters of former Confederate general Wade Hampton who was…
“The Little Church Around the Corner,” The Civil War, and The Draft Riots
The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on 29th St. in Manhattan is known to all New Yorkers as “The Little Church Around the Corner.” Although…