Author: Patrick Young

Weeksville was a free Black community established in Brooklyn before the Civil War. In the 1850s the community had 500 people living in it, about…

I have been taking a lot of photos this month of Civil War sites in New York City and its suburbs. Today, instead of looking…

The monument to the 128th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was erected in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1908. The regiment was raised in Dutchess and…

Last week I reported that Julia Dent Grant’s memoirs were ranked the Best Book by or about a First Lady by Town and Country Magazine….

Religion’s place in American life has become a rich subject of Civil War Era research in recent decades. Josh Waddell, a scholar at the University…

I was looking at baseball card site today, and I came across this interesting piece on how the Topps Baseball Card company put out a…

Mick Moloney, a renowned historian of Irish music, passed away last week. Moloney was instrumental in introducing modern audiences to Irish American music of the…

Julia Dent Grant’s Personal Memoirs was ranked #1 in a list of the twenty best books on the First Ladies put out this week by…

As someone who spends a lot of time reading 19th Century American newspapers, I sometimes come up with a newspaper with the word “Caucasian” in…

Blogs Have you ever belonged to a Civil War Round Table? These are highly local groups of people interested in the Civil War who meet…