Category: Civil War
Emerging Civil War Discussion of Slave Trading in the South During the Civil War
Emerging Civil War Podcasts includes a discussion of Chris Mackowski with Dr. Robert K. D. Colby on slave trading in the Civil War and his…
National Museum of African American History & Culture
I was going to roll-out this article in May, but because of the president’s unparalleled attack on the National Museum African American History and Culture…
Federal Government Stops Payment on Grants to History, Arts, Sciences, and Other Museums and Sites
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced yesterday that previously awarded grants will no longer be fulfilled. These go to historic sites, libraries, museums…
David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian
David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,
This month the 2025 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute was awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River…
Executive Order Looking at Rewriting History at Smithsonian and National Park System
Tonight the President has issued a new Executive Order that identifies the Smithsonian and the National Park Service as deceptively depicting American history. The new…
Civil War Monument in Hightstown New Jersey
Hightstown, New Jersey is a small borough of 5,900 people in Mercer County. Hightstown is withing commuting distance of Manhattan and is in the Raritan…
Civil War Monument in Cranbury New Jersey
Cranbury, New Jersey is a small township of 3,842 people in the Raritan Valley. It looks almost rural, but it is less than an hour…
Civil War Talk Radio Looks at How Warring Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union
Gerry Prokopowicz interviews noted historian Richard Carwardine, author of “Righteous Strife: How Warring Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union,” on religious nationalism in both the North and…
Civil War Talk Radio Looks at African American Contributions to Intelligence During the Civil War
Gerry Prokopowicz interviews David Welker, author of “African American Intelligence Contributions during the American Civil War.” An article appearing in the International Journal of Intelligence and…