The Map of the Battle of Liberty Place
Map source: Rare Maps The “Battle of Liberty Place” was an armed coup by the White League of Louisiana to reimpose “White Only” governance in…
Bryan House a Black Refuge at Gettysburg
Abraham Brian was a free Black man who owned this farm near where Pickett’s Charge ended on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg…
Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware
For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha published by Liveright Press (2024) Manisha Sinha is the author of…
Memorial Episode of Civil War Talk on Death of Historian Peter Carmichael (Podcast)
I had only met Peter Carmichael once. I had run into him at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College in June. Arnoldo Vazquez, and…
Irish Monument to the American Civil War
My wife and I were in Ireland in August and, of course, we found Civil War-related sites at the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean….
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews Edda L. Fields-Black Author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Host Gerald Prokopowicz of Civil War Talk Podcast interviews Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during…
Abraham Lincoln Statue at Gettysburg Visitors Center
You would expect Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg and I am sure many readers recall seeing Lincoln downtown in this Civil War city. That statue, which…
The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell
The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David Powell published by Savas Beatie (2024) When I saw that military historian Dave…
Gettysburg Cyclorama
In June I visited the Gettysburg Cyclorama. The Cyclorama is a gigantic round painting of “Pickett’s Charge” in which the audience stands in the middle…