Category: Places to Visit
Civil War Sesquicentennial Monument Cranbury New Jersey
In my search for Civil War monuments, I have visited many that were erected soon after Appomattox, but I have also discovered quite a few…
Civil War Monument in Hightstown New Jersey
Hightstown, New Jersey is a small borough of 5,900 people in Mercer County. Hightstown is withing commuting distance of Manhattan and is in the Raritan…
Civil War Monument in Cranbury New Jersey
Cranbury, New Jersey is a small township of 3,842 people in the Raritan Valley. It looks almost rural, but it is less than an hour…
Female Civil War Nurses Scrubbed from Defense Department’s Web Site
Military.Com has discovered that the Defense Department has scrubbed an article on its web site that detailed the history of women nurses recruited during the…
Vicksburg Has Lost 32% of Its Staff Under DOGE Cuts
Vicksburg National Military Park has lost 7 full-time staff members out of a staff of 22. 32% of the staff has been laid off at…
National Park Archeologists for South Fired-10 Out of 17 Were Let Go
A unit of archeologists based in Florida, but whose work is throughout the states of the old Confederacy east of the Mississippi River, has seen…
New Talking Points Issued to National Park Service Staffers on Describing Recent Firings
ProPublica reports that late in February National Parks sites across the country received an email on “talking points” after the round of firings of staff…
Frederick Douglass Our Composite Nation Exhibit New-York Historical Society
The life-sized figure of Frederick Douglass in the interior of the New-York Historical Society is not painting, it is a statue that is exactly based…
Judge Orders Fired National Park Service Staff Back to Work-Appeal Likely
A Federal District Court Judge has issued an order today that may return fired National Park Employees (NPS) to their jobs. The NPS is part…
Arlington National Cemetery Website Deletes Civil War & Black, Hispanic, and Women Webpages
The military affairs journal Task & Purpose writes that Arlington Cemetery has made changes to its website in recent weeks. Webpages that were devoted to…
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