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What Was the Impact of Emancipation on the Children of Slaveowners?
Here is an economics report released as a Twitter Storm on the impact of Emancipation and Reconstruction on the children of the slaveholding elite in…
Recovering the Voices of Enslaved Women in Song
New songs from the days of slavery. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-these-four-banjo-playing-women-resurrected-songs-enslaved-180971926/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2fJ9UAkvs4cWJfRhUagwoC5akxF2iE5UMNth379x071fUdUKpvyKSU0hE
New Yorker on the Fight at the American Historical Association Over President’s Column on Slavery History
New Yorker writer Emma Green has an interesting piece in the New Yorker on the well-publicized article by the president of the American Historical Association…
Riverhead Civil War Monument on Long Island’s East End
In July 1871 the Riverhead Civil War monument was erected by John S. Marcy in the town’s cemetery. When war broke out in April 1861,…
Dedication Day and Remembrance Day at Gettysburg Nov. 19. 2022 Schedule of Events
Dedication Day at Gettysburg and Remembrance Day both fall on November 19 this year. Dedication Day marks the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address dedicating the…
National Park Service Awards Restoration Grants for Four Civil War Battle Sites
The National Park Service announced this week that it was awarding its first grants under the new Battlefield Restoration Grants program. Four sites were selected…
Four Sites Added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
Four new sites have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network These sites are, according to National Parks Traveller: The Gilmore Cabin at…
This Weekend Abolitionist Roots of the Women’s Rights Movement at Seneca Falls, N.Y. July 15-17 2022
For the first time in three years, the Women’s Rights National Historic Park will commemorate the 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s Convention in-person. Here is info…