Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration by Harold Holzer
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration by Harold Holzer published by Dutton (2024) Harold Holzer is one of the foremost scholars…
Brewster NY Civil War Monument
Brewster is a small village in New York’s Hudson Valley. I visited its Civil War Monument in January of this year. As has been the…
Frederick Douglass Essay on Reconstruction
Frederick Douglass set forth his hopes for Reconstruction at the end of the first year of the post-war era in a December, 1866 article in…
Soldiers’ Monument of Waterbury, Conn.
The Waterbury Soldiers’ Monument in Western Connecticut is a monumental sculptural work that demands better care and preservation. Dedicated on October 23, 1884 at the…
To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Scott Hartwig
To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Scott Hartwig published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2012) My regular readers know that a…
Yale Apologizes for Its Ties to Slavery
“We recognize our university’s historical role in and associations with slavery, as well as the labor, the experiences and the contributions of enslaved people to…
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…
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…
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…
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,…