Category: Places to Visit
Chester A. Arthur Statue Madison Square Park New York City
Madison Square Park on Manhattan is an attractive public space. It has several statues on exhibit including Saint-Gaudens’s Admiral David Farragut and Republican Senator Roscoe…
Roswell Textile Mills Georgia Where Confederate Cloth Was Manufactured
Roswell was a Georgia textile town before the Civil War. Once the war started, the Confederate government contracted with the mills to produce a wide…
Roswell Georgia Monument to Women “Lost Mill Workers”
I have been to Roswell, Georgia on several occasions to view the ruined mill sites along Vickery Creek. In 1864, during his campaign to capture…
Schoharie Crossing Erie Canal New York
I told a friend I was going to photograph Schoharie Crossing near Albany. He said “So, you’ve stopped taking pictures of Civil War sites.” No,…
Information About Slavery “Scrubbed” from Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta, where the house that one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement grew up in…
Video Politics & Memory in Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York
Akela Reason from the University of Georgia speaks about the building of Civil War monuments in New York City and Brooklyn. After Gettysburg, New York…
End of the Oregon Trail Museum Oregon City, Oregon
“You died from dysentery.” The Oregon Trail would seem like it did not have much to do with the Civil War, but the trail was…
Video: The War Over Memory at Bull Run Battlefield
Historian Tyler McGraw has a good video at Emerging Civil War where he discusses the impending removal of signage explaining the history behind the erection…
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in NYC Loses Material on Slavery
The Washington Post reports today that “a display at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York City was taken down for making reference to historical…
Ft. Sum(p)ter Artillery in Portland, Oregon(?)
My wife Michele and I were out in Portland, Oregon exploring the Colombia River Gorge. She was doing some research and found out that there…