National Park Service Plans to Fire Over 1,000 Staff
According to a memo leaked to the press on Friday, National Park Service leadership briefed park superintendents on Thursday that 1,000 park personnel will be…
Lincoln Return Visit Gettysburg Pennsylvania
There are a half-dozen statues of Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg. It is no wonder, because Gettysburg was where the public recognized that the Union was…
Smithsonian National Museum of American History Washington, D.C.
Most of my readers have been to the Smithsonian American History Museum in Washington at 1300 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560. I have been…
Civil War Talk Radio on Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of Americas Largest Emancipation
Gerry at Civil War Talk Radio has a thought provoking with Bennett Parten, the author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of…
William McKinley Monument Sharpsburg Maryland
Many of you have visited Antietam National Battlefield at Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The September 17, 1862 battle became the largest violent loss of…
Clara Barton Schoolhouse Bordentown New Jersey
Most of my readers know about Clara Barton. She was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War and in the last days of the war…
Curtis Yarvin “Historian” for Tech Bros Says Blacks Were Better Off With Slavery
The New York Times did an interview with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer who in middle age has become a major player in the reexamination…
Grant Home Burlington, NJ Where Grant Found Out Lincoln Was Assassinated
I had always heard that Ulysses S. Grant was invited to accompany Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 to see the play…
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur and Elizabeth Clarke
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur and Elizabeth Clarke published by University of North…
NY Times on Why Showboat Is Such an Enduring Musical of American History
Joshua Barone is the assistant classical music and dance editor of the New York Times. He has written a note on why Showboat is both…
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