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New Yorker on President Trump’s Take on History

David Remnick the editor of the New Yorker, has written an article on President Donald Trump’s assault on American history. This article appeared in the…

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Posted in Civil War Slavery

Emerging Civil War Discussion of Slave Trading in the South During the Civil War

Emerging Civil War Podcasts includes a discussion of Chris Mackowski with Dr. Robert K. D. Colby on slave trading in the Civil War and his…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Underground Railroad

National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad (and it ain’t good)

The new administration has made a lot of changes in how the National Park Service (NPS), the military, and other agencies present American history. Today’s…

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Posted in Civil War Memory of Reconstruction Monuments

National Museum of African American History & Culture

I was going to roll-out this article in May, but because of the president’s unparalleled attack on the National Museum African American History and Culture…

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Federal Government Stops Payment on Grants to History, Arts, Sciences, and Other Museums and Sites

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced yesterday that previously awarded grants will no longer be fulfilled. These go to historic sites, libraries, museums…

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Posted in Civil War Memory of Reconstruction White Supremacy Apologetics

David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian

David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War Women and Gender

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,

This month the 2025 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute was awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River…

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Posted in Black Officeholders Civil War Women and Gender

Executive Order Looking at Rewriting History at Smithsonian and National Park System

Tonight the President has issued a new Executive Order that identifies the Smithsonian and the National Park Service as deceptively depicting American history. The new…

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Posted in Civil War Monuments Places to Visit

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…

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Posted in White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics White Terror

Misunderstandings About the “Black Codes”

A misconception I run into when I discuss Reconstruction is that the Black Codes were passed because of the corruption and mismanagement of the governments…

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