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Civil War Talk Radio Interviews the Author of a New Book on Civil War Video Games

Gerry Prokopowicz discusses the new book Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games with its editor Patrick Lewis. The book looks back…

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Grant Aide Ely Parker Removed from Pentagon Web Site

Ulysses S. Grant’s aide, Seneca Tonawanda Native American Ely Parker, was profiled on the Defense Department’s website as an historical portrait. The Washington Post revealed…

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Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III

Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III published by LSU Press…

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Seven New Sites Have Been Added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

The National Park Service announced that seven new sites have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. Here is the announcement: The National…

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Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue Was Shrouded in this 1905 Illustration

This illustration, “Forrest Again in White Shroud,” was published in the newspaper Memphis Press-Scimitar on April 30, 1905. The illustration appeared just a month before…

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The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory by Gaines Foster

The Limits of the Lost Cause: Essays on Civil War Memory. By Gaines M. Foster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 280 pp….

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Frederick Douglass Statue at New-York Historical Society

Frederick Douglass stands at the top of a stair leading into the New-York Historical Society. The statue was installed in 2011 just as the United…

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Second Bull Run’s Oldest Monument

People viewing this week’s monument might think they recognize it as the First Bull Run monument, but they would be wrong. This is the Second…

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Study How Former Confederates Ended Reconstruction With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918

This is the final article in our four-part series on how South Carolina told its children about the Civil War and Reconstruction from 1918 until…

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Study the End of the Civil War and Start of Reconstruction With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918

I wanted to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in the early 20th Century by…

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