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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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Civil War Institute: Lincoln & Immigration with Harold Holzer

Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration by Harold Holzer is one of the most talked-about Civil War books of 2024. Here…

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Civil War Institute: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Beyond Little Round Top With Ron White

On the first day of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College Ron White was one of the featured speakers. He is very well known…

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Civil War Institute: General Benjamin Butler Challenged the Elite of New England and the Nation

I am at the Civil War Institute in Gettysburg this weekend. I’ll try to give a little look at what is going on here. There…

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Northfield Cemetery Stamford, Connecticut

Northfield Cemetery in Stamford, Connecticut has some of the oldest graves in that city. Begun as a formal cemetery in 1787, there are burials there…

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Fulton Ferry Brooklyn, the Civil War, the Draft Riots, and Walt Whitman-Photo Tour

In researching the Civil War and Reconstruction in New York City, I keep coming across Fulton Ferry. I have mentioned it a dozen times for…

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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan published by Bloomsbury Publishing (2024) I have been very…

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Gerry Prokopowicz talks to Dr. Cecily Zander on Anti-Militarism in the North During the Civil War

Gerry Prokopowicz, host of Civil War Talk Radio, interviews Dr. Cecily N. Zander. She is the author of The Army Under Fire: The Politics of…

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