Posted in Lincoln

Which Civil War/Reconstruction Presidents Rate Highest According to Historians?

The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has published the results of its most recent survey conducted at the end of 2023. The survey began…

Continue Reading Which Civil War/Reconstruction Presidents Rate Highest According to Historians?
Posted in Civil War Uncategorized USCT

Long Island Black Civil War Soldier to Have Marker Placed Near His Oyster Bay House

Long Island’s Town of Oyster Bay will unveil an historical marker on Carll Hill Road telling the story behind the naming of the road. David…

Continue Reading Long Island Black Civil War Soldier to Have Marker Placed Near His Oyster Bay House
Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Places to Visit Religion

African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie NY

The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie, N.Y. is a church that goes back before the time of the Civil War. The church is…

Continue Reading African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie NY
Posted in Civil War Slavery USCT

Robert Smalls, Heroic Escaped Slave, Learned to Read & Told His Opinions

A new article in the Smithsonian Magazine offers some insights into Robert Smalls from his teacher in South Carolina. In 1862, Smalls, and enslaved pilot,…

Continue Reading Robert Smalls, Heroic Escaped Slave, Learned to Read & Told His Opinions
Posted in Book Reviews Ku Klux Klan

Fergus M. Bordewich Author of “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” Is on Civil War Talk Radio Podcast

Fergus M. Bordewich, author of “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” is on Civil War Talk Radio with Gerry Prokopowicz….

Continue Reading Fergus M. Bordewich Author of “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” Is on Civil War Talk Radio Podcast
Posted in Civil War

Old Soldiers Still Can Love Young Women-A Confederate Soldier’s Home Tale

Here is an interesting story from Rusty Williams, a scholar of Confederate soldiers’ homes, on the home in Oklahoma. The home admitted Confederate veterans and…

Continue Reading Old Soldiers Still Can Love Young Women-A Confederate Soldier’s Home Tale
Posted in Abolitionists Monuments Places to Visit Women and Gender

Sojourner Truth Memorial at Northampton, Mass.

In the Summer I went up into the Hudson Valley to see a statue of Sojourner Truth as a young woman. In the Fall I…

Continue Reading Sojourner Truth Memorial at Northampton, Mass.
Posted in Book Reviews Lost Cause

Gerry Prokopowicz has author Matthew Christopher Hulbert on to Discuss His New Book “Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War”

Gerry Prokopowicz has author Matthew Christopher Hulbert on to discuss his new book “Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War”….

Continue Reading Gerry Prokopowicz has author Matthew Christopher Hulbert on to Discuss His New Book “Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War”
Posted in Abolitionists Book Reviews

Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909 By Raymond James

Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909. By Raymond James Krohn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023, 288 pp. Paperback $35.00….

Continue Reading Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909 By Raymond James
Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Civil War Religion

Harriet Tubman’s Church Auburn N.Y. Photo Tour

Harriet Tubman today is an iconic figure of resistance to slavery, fighting for the Union to abolish slavery, and caring for Black veterans who served…

Continue Reading Harriet Tubman’s Church Auburn N.Y. Photo Tour