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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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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson published by Crown 592…

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The Irish Fighting 69th Monument at Calvary Cemetery in Queens

I visited the monument erected by the veterans of the most famous Irish American regiment of the Civil War, the Fighting 69th (69th NYVI) at…

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Rye New York African American Cemetery Where USCT & 54th Massachusetts Rest

Right off of I-95 in Rye, New York lies a forgotten cemetery where for 120 years local African American families had buried their dead. The…

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