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Former President Trump Says Civil War Could Have Been Avoided Through Negotiation

Former President Donald Trump just involved himself in the historiography of the Civil War during a speech in Iowa today. It was not an event…

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Hillsdale NY Soldiers Monument in the Taconic Mountains

Hillsdale, New York is a scenic locale about two hours north of New York City. I arrived there during Christmas on a rainy morning. There…

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Podcast: Scott Hartwig Discusses His Book “I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign”

The Battle of Antietam is the single bloodiest one-day battle in American history. PreservePodcast  interviews D. Scott Hartwig about his new, award winning, book “I…

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Bethlehem Pennsylvania Civil War Soldiers’ Monument

The day after Christmas I went to Bethlehem, in the spirit of the Season. The town was celebrating the birth of Christ, but it was…

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Copperhead Mayor Fernando Wood and Union Gen. John Dix Graves in Manhattan

When I mention the Trinity Church cemetery in Manhattan, most New Yorkers will tell me about visiting there as a  child, typically to see the…

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New York Times Reviews “LONGSTREET: The Confederate General Who Defied the South”

The new book by Elizabeth Varon on Confederate General James Longstreet was recently reviewed in the New York Times by Brenda Wineapple. Here are some…

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Roscoe Conkling A Civil War Politician in Madison Square Park in NYC

I approached Madison Square Park in New York City from the South East side, where Madison Avenue hits East 23rd Street in Manhattan. There are…

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NY Times Reviews “LONGSTREET: The Confederate General Who Defied the South,” by Elizabeth R. Varon

The New York Times has a review of the hot Civil War and Reconstruction book of the Winter. The review is done by  Brenda Wineapple,…

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The Failure to Convict Jefferson Davis for Insurrection

Historian Jill Lepore has an interesting article on the New Yorker website on the failure to convict Confederate President Jefferson Davis after the Civil War….

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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon published by Simon & Schuster (2023) Back in the 1960s when I first started…

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