Category: Civil War

On Juneteenth (June 19, 2023) the Grant Cottage in Upstate New York will have two programs honoring the National Holiday. Here is the press release…

Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn is a heavily visited park in one of New York State’s most densely populated neighborhoods. The Fort itself was part…

The Abraham Lincoln Association is Holding a Symposium Saturday, June 17, 2023 — 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. RSVP…

The Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. will open a new exhibit on the pre-Civil War attempts to abolish slavery. Here is the description from…

Kevin Levin, author of Searching For Black Confederates and Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder, speaks about Robert Gould Shaw before his…

The Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial in Washington D.C. is in a prominent location in the nation’s capital. It is at the corner…

The National Portrait Gallery Presents “Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers” on View June 23–June 9, 2024. This is an exhibition of Civil…

I go up to New Hampshire every four years to observe the New Hampshire Primary first hand. In 2016 I went too the prep school…

When I am visiting Albany on business, I like to have dinner at P&Gs Tavern in New Paltz. While I have been to New Paltz…

In March, I travelled to Saratoga County, north of New York’s capital at Albany to visit the birthplace and the grave of Elmer Ellsworth. While…