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Historiocrats

Jeff Burns Pat Young writes The Reconstruction Era Blog and The Immigrants’ Civil War. He is Special Professor of Immigration Law at Hofstra Law School…

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Broadway Civil War Monument New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is best known as the location of Yale University and one of its best known Civil War monuments is only a few blocks…

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Rachel Powell, Leader of Gettysburg Occupation, Gets Nearly Five Years in Jail

Rachel Powell, who was a leader in the far-right occupation of Gettysburg on July 4, 2020, has been sentenced to nearly five years in jail…

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New Opera in Houston Focuses on the Van Lew/Bowser Spy Ring in Richmond During Civil War

The Houston Grand Opera is opening a brand new work of opera on the spy ring in Richmond during the Civil War led by Elizabeth…

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NY Times Reviews Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich

Jennifer Szalai did a review in the New York Times of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M….

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Sag Harbor Civil War Soldiers’ Memorial on Long Island

Sag Harbor is one of Long Island’s most intact housing stock from the Civil War Era. Earlier fires in the village led to many of…

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Wall Street Journal Reviews “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction” by Fergus M. Bordewich

Today, the Wall Street Journal has a review by Roger Lowenstein the new book Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction…

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Monument to 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment in New Haven

After the 1960s, very few Civil War monuments were erected, however several were unveiled honoring African American participants in the last thirty years. Monuments to…

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Robert Gould Shaw’s “Grave” on Staten Island & Gen. Francis Barlow’s Wife’s Resting Place

Robert Gould Shaw (born October 10, 1837) was one of the  most famous colonels of the Civil War. The subject of the movie “Glory,” Shaw…

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Portsmouth, N.H. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Celebrates the Defeat of The Alabama

The Portsmouth Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a large and historically significant memorial to Union veterans of the Civil War. Portsmouth, New Hampshire was the…

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