Category: Civil War
Emerging Civil War Interviews Gerry Prokopowicz Host of Civil War Talk Radio
Chris Mackowski, host of the Emerging Civil War podcast, interviews the grandaddy of all Civil War podcasters Gerry Prokopowicz. Professor Prokopowicz has been podcasting Civil…
“Last Seen” Historian Judy Giesberg Talks About Her New Book on Former Slaves Searching for Relatives
On Thursday I had the opportunity to see historian Judith Giesberg being interviewed by Columbia University historian Stephanie McCurry, the author of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in…
National Park Service Plans to Fire Over 1,000 Staff
According to a memo leaked to the press on Friday, National Park Service leadership briefed park superintendents on Thursday that 1,000 park personnel will be…
Smithsonian National Museum of American History Washington, D.C.
Most of my readers have been to the Smithsonian American History Museum in Washington at 1300 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560. I have been…
William McKinley Monument Sharpsburg Maryland
Many of you have visited Antietam National Battlefield at Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The September 17, 1862 battle became the largest violent loss of…
Clara Barton Schoolhouse Bordentown New Jersey
Most of my readers know about Clara Barton. She was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War and in the last days of the war…
Grant Home Burlington, NJ Where Grant Found Out Lincoln Was Assassinated
I had always heard that Ulysses S. Grant was invited to accompany Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 to see the play…
Princeton University Civil War Memorial Atrium
Princeton University, one of the elite Ivy League schools, is in the North East in New Jersey. There is a monument on campus memorializing alums…
Union Brigadier General Randolph B. Marcy Grave in Trenton
In November of 2024 I photographed George McClellan’s grave at Riverview Cemetery in Trenton, N.J. While there, I found out that another Civil War general…
Jimmy Carter and His Civil War Reading
Well-known historian Douglas Brinkley was writing a biography of Jimmy Carter in 1993 and he met with the former president. He asked him what were…