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Civil War Talk Radio Looks at African American Contributions to Intelligence During the Civil War

Gerry Prokopowicz interviews David Welker, author of “African American Intelligence Contributions during the American Civil War.” An article appearing in the International Journal of Intelligence and…

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Civil War Talk Radio Focuses on the Confederate Surrender at Bentonville

Gerry Prokopowicz  interviews Derrick S. Brown, the operations manager of the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in North Carolina. Here General Sherman forced the surrender…

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Posted in Civil War Memory of Reconstruction

Civil War Talk Radio Interviews the Author of a New Book on Civil War Video Games

Gerry Prokopowicz discusses the new book Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games with its editor Patrick Lewis. The book looks back…

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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…

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How Many Union Soldiers Occupied the South During Reconstruction?

Last year, I was talking about researching the Reconstruction Era at a Civil War Roundtable, and a man there said that he loves the Civil…

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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…

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Grant Aide Ely Parker Removed from Pentagon Web Site

Ulysses S. Grant’s aide, Seneca Tonawanda Native American Ely Parker, was profiled on the Defense Department’s website as an historical portrait. The Washington Post revealed…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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