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Community Meets to Discuss New Civil War & Reconstruction Museum in North Carolina

The Fayetteville Observer reports on a community meeting Tuesday on the new North Carolina History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. The museum…

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Posted in Civil War

Eric Foner on the Life of Southern Historian C. Vann Woodward Who Helped Change How We View the Civil War and Reconstruction

Eric Foner has an in-depth review of a new book on one of the most important 20th Century historians of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and…

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Posted in Civil War Lost Cause

Jubal Early Explains the Biblical Justification of the Confederate Labor System

Recently I spent more than 4,000 words Confederate general Jubal Early’s explanation of the causes of the Civil War, which were, according to Early, slavery…

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Posted in Abolitionists Movies

Review: Becoming Frederick Douglass PBS Biography of Leading Abolitionist

PBS premiered Becoming Frederick Douglass, a one-hour biography of the Abolitionist and Civil Rights leader, on October 11. Like the documentary Visions of Harriet Tubman…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War

Civil War Monitor’s Five Essential Books on Sherman’s March to the Sea

Civil War Monitor has been putting out lists of the best books on a variety of Civil War-related topics lately. Here is its list of…

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Controversy Over Delaware Confederate Flag Leads to Partial Boycott of Traditional Parade

Thursdays after Election Day are unique in Georgetown, Delaware close to the Maryland border on the Eastern Shore. It is the scene of the Return…

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Gallery of Photos of United States Colored Troops & Civil War Era African Americans On Display in Manhattan

The Kimmel Windows Gallery at New York University is opening a new exhibit; The Black Civil War Soldier on Oct. 13 and on view until…

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Posted in U.S. Grant

Video: Chris Mackowski of Emerging Civil War Talks About “The Myth of Grant’s Silence.”

In this video Chris Mackowski of Emerging Civil War, talks about “The Myth of Grant’s Silence.” The talk was videoed at Grant’s Cottage in the…

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Posted in Civil War Places to Visit

Photo Tour of Civil War Monument & Union Graves in Nyack, NY

Nyack, New York is one of the most driven-through of the Hudson River villages in the Mid-Hudson Region. The western terminus of the new Mario…

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Black Resettlement and the American Civil War Wins Tom Watson Brown Award

Professor Sebastian Page of Oxford University has won the Tom Watson Brown Book Award for his new volume Black Resettlement and the American Civil War….

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