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Ronald White on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute Podcast

Ronald C White spoke on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Civil War Institute. He recently published his new book “On Great Fields: The Life and…

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Newly Erected Clara Barton Statue Hagerstown Maryland

Anyone who knows about the Battles of Gettysburg or Antietam has heard of Hagerstown, Maryland but I wonder how many “Civil War Tourists” have stopped…

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Civil War Institute: Did Civil War Soldiers Hide the Real War? Podcast

Walt Whitman said that the real war would never get in the books. This panel of historians confronts the primary sources of the Civil War,…

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West Point Foundry at Cold Spring New York Where the Parrott Gun Was Developed

In 2013 the new West Point Foundry Preserve opened in Cold Spring, New York right next to the Hudson River. Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects designed…

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Civil War Institute: Irish in the Civil War with Ryan Keating

Ryan Keating lectured on Irish in the American Civil War during the Civil War Institute. Keating is a professor of history at California State University…

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Civil War Institute: Gettysburg’s 50th Anniversary Reunion of Blue and Gray with Thomas Flagel

Thomas R. Flagel is associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee. At his lecture at the Civil War Institute last weekend…

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Southold N.Y. Civil War Monument Photo Tour on Long Island’s North Fork

Southold is a developing town on Long Island’s hopping North Fork. Five decades ago it was a rarely visited remote rural community. Today, that is…

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Civil War Institute Podcast: John Pope & the Massacre of the Sioux

Cecily N. Zander is a historian at Texas Woman’s University. She spoke at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg last weekend describing General Pope’s attacks…

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Civil War Institute: Interpreting Race at Battlefields and Historic Sites

The Civil War Institute did breakout sessions and one that I went to had National Park Service personnel and the director of a site in…

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Podcast: Ron White on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

I was at the Civil War Institute over the weekend in Gettysburg. There was recording of some of the events. Here is the podcast recording…

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