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Juneteenth Celebration at Grant’s Cottage in the Adirondacks

On Juneteenth (June 19, 2023) the Grant Cottage in Upstate New York will have two programs honoring the National Holiday. Here is the press release…

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Camilla Massacre Marker Finally Goes Up in Albany, Georgia

The September 19, 1868 Camilla Massacre was one of the bloodiest in Reconstruction Georgia. Freedpeople marching in a political demonstration were attacked by whites near…

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U.S. Failed in Counterterrorism Operations After the Civil War

Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a scholar of counterterrorism studies at the Brookings Institution. He has an…

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Greg Downs Interviewed on His Book “After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War” a Great Book on the U.S. Army in the South After the War

Greg Downs wrote a great book a few years ago After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War. I will be publishing a review…

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