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G.A.R. Statue at Sacramento City Cemetery

The Old Sacramento City Cemetery in the California state capital is about twenty blocks south of the Capitol Building  on Riverside Drive and Second Ave,…

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Posted in Civil War Lost Cause Movies

Historians Discuss the Movie “Gettysburg” on Its 30th Anniversary

Historians at the Movies Podcast has on Kevin Levine, Waitman Beorn, and Rich Condon to discuss the Ted Turner 1993 film Gettysburg. Most of my…

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Boston Common’s Civil War Memorial Vandalized

Right before midnight on July 3 camera’s caught six people at Boston’s Civil War monument in Boston Common. By the time they left, there were…

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Posted in Abolitionists Civil War Underground Railroad

John W. Jones Black Abolitionist & Keeper of Elmira POW Cemetery Has New Statue Erected

The John W. Jones Museum in Elmira has newly erected statue of Jones. He was a formerly enslaved person who escaped slavery in Virginia and…

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Posted in Civil War Immigrants Monuments Women and Gender

Elizabeth Thorn Statue of Caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery at Gettysburg

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln headed on horseback through the streets of Gettysburg to deliver his most famous speech. He rode past the impressive…

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NY Times on Gettysburg’s “Lost Cause Problem”

For the 161st  Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg the New York Times published an opinion piece today on Gettysburg and the Lost Cause. Simon…

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Posted in Religion Slavery

Kentuckian Episcopalians Ask Church to Denounce Civil War Leader Rev. James Craik

Rev. James Craik was an important figure in the Episcopal church in the United States at the time of the Civil War. He was an…

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Newly Erected Clara Barton Statue Hagerstown Maryland

Anyone who knows about the Battles of Gettysburg or Antietam has heard of Hagerstown, Maryland but I wonder how many “Civil War Tourists” have stopped…

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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle

The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World by Don Doyle published by Princeton University Press (2024) Don Doyle’s new book…

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West Point Foundry at Cold Spring New York Where the Parrott Gun Was Developed

In 2013 the new West Point Foundry Preserve opened in Cold Spring, New York right next to the Hudson River. Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects designed…

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