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 Civil War Religion

Civil War Talk Radio Looks at How Warring Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union

Gerry Prokopowicz  interviews noted historian Richard Carwardine, author of “Righteous Strife: How Warring Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union,” on religious nationalism in both the North and…

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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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Posted in Civil War Places to Visit Women and Gender

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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Posted in Occupation Refugees

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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Posted in Civil War Places to Visit

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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Posted in Civil War Memory of Reconstruction Native Americans Uncategorized

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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