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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Myths of the Gettysburg Campaign Explained by Tim Smith

Tim Smith of the Adams County Historical Society in Gettysburg is an expert on the battle. This short video helps explain how certain myths have…

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“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…

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Fort Schuyler Where the Irish Brigade Trained in The Bronx

This week I recount my visit to a rich historical site with great views and a unique natural setting that was appreciated as much by…

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Captain Dermody Triangle in Queens Honoring an Immigrant Abolitionist

Captain William Dermody Triangle in Bayside, Queens honors an officer of the Army of the Potomac killed at Spotsylvania in 1864. Dermody was from Bayside…

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Rare Opportunity to See “Juneteenth” and the Emancipation Proclamation at National Archives on June 19

Tomorrow is the last day the special exhibit displaying the Union Army order that was distributed in Galveston on June 19, 1865 and the Emancipation…

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Long Island Black Civil War Naval Landsman Gets Headstone for Juneteenth

The Society of  Grand Army of the Republic dedicated a veteran’s Civil War headstone over a previously unmarked gravesite at the Hauppauge United Methodist Church…

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