Category: Immigrants
New Statue of Norway Immigrant and Union Col. Hans Heg Dedicated in Madison, Wi.
The statue of Col. Hans Heg was torn down by a small group of protesters in Madison, Wisconsin in 2020. Last year, a new version…
Book Review: Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War
Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War edited by Carol A. Shively is a colorful and interesting introduction to the participation of Asian immigrants…
60th United States Colored Troops: Iowa’s Black Regiment Was Mostly from Elsewhere
This is one in a series of scrapbooks focusing on United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments. These are not regimental histories and I invite you…
Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War National Park Service Handbook
A popularly written book on immigrants in the war is Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War (2015). This book is published by the…
New Curriculum Available on “Lincoln and the Jews”
The Shapell Foundation was the force behind a Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibition at the New York Historical Society on Lincoln’s interactions with the emerging Jewish…
An Irish Immigrant Supporter of Lincoln Writes to His Daughter that the 1876 Election Is a Fraud
Patrick Guiney was the colonel commanding the Irish 9th Massachusetts Regiment when he was badly wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness. He would suffer…
Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon
Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon published by University of Tennessee Press (2020) $40.00 Hardcover. Author David…
Irish World Cartoon: White League “Leave the Negro Alone” Deep Dive
The Irish World, the most popular Irish immigrant newspaper in late 19th Century America, took a firm stand against white supremacist violence during Reconstruction. I…
A “Torrent of Immigrants” Arrive in New York April 1869
While we think of the Reconstruction Era as a time of change and reaction in the South, the North was also being remade. Immigration spiked…
The Suffering of Immigrants in North Carolina December 1868
Many Southern states made attempts to encourage immigration to replace Black labor lost through the end of slavery. While some European and Chinese immigrants did…