Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site Wins Award for Excellence in National Park Service History
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Missouri was honored last week in Los Angeles with the Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service…
NPS Awards $4.5 Million to Acquire 200 Acres of Civil War Battlefields in Virginia
The National Park Service has granted $4.5 million in Battlefield Land Acquisition grants to preserve two Civil War battlefields in Virginia. The grants will provide…
Gravesite of Adam Badeau Ulysses S. Grant’s Aide in Sleepy Hollow N.Y.
Adam Badeau was born on December 29, 1831 in New York City. He grew up in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow along the banks of the…
New Republic Reviews “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction”
Kidada Williams’s new book I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction is getting reviewed widely. Here are excerpts…
New Civil War Trails Marker in Goldsboro, N.C. on 135th USCT
The City of Goldsboro, North Carolina celebrated the 158th Anniversary of its men taking up arms to free North Carolina from the Confederacy during the…
Gilder Lehrman 2023 Lincoln Prize Awarded to Two Books on Lincoln During Civil War
The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize is among the most prestigious awards in the scholarship of the Civil War. The prize includes a purse of $50,000….
South Bend Museum Opens Exhibit on Grant’s VP Schuyler Colfax
The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana has opened a new permanent exhibit telling the story of Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president Schuyler Colfax. Colfax…
Plymouth Church Brooklyn, Henry Ward Beecher and the Civil War Photo Tour
Although I live on Long Island, I was often in historic Brooklyn to visit Michele. I will be sharing some picture that I took in…
New Yorker on the Fight at the American Historical Association Over President’s Column on Slavery History
New Yorker writer Emma Green has an interesting piece in the New Yorker on the well-publicized article by the president of the American Historical Association…
Phil Sheridan Statue in National Park Dedicated to Stonewall
Philip Sheridan became a national hero during the last two years of the Civil War. A close subordinate of Ulysses S. Grant from the Fall…