Around the Web October 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Welcome back to our survey of the best of social media on the Civil War and Reconstruction over the last month. There was a big…
U.S. Grant: Strategy and Statesmanship Symposium October 15, 2022 in Harrisburg, Pa.
The National Museum of the Civil War in Harrisburg is hosting a Symposium on Oct. 15, 2022 on U.S. Grant: Strategy and Statesmanship. The all-day…
“Antifa” Terror Threats at Cedar Creek Battlefield Actually Came from Civil War Reenactor Says Cops
Civil War reenactor Gerald Leonard Drake was arrested this week for making threats against a Civil War reenactment at Cedar Creek Battlefield in Virginia in…
418 Unmarked Graves of Danville, Virginia’s Freedpeople Have Now Been Located Using Ground-Penetrating Radar
Phase I of Danville, Virginia’s project looking for the burial locations of the city’s formerly enslaved African American population has been completed. Ground penetrating radar…
Was The 14th Amendment’s Legislative Intent To Correct the Wrongs of Slavery and Discrimination?
In the recent oral argument before the Supreme Court in the case of Merrill v. Milligan, the State of Alabama argued that the Voting Rights…
Review Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom from PBS
In the last decade I have spent a lot of time studying Harriet Tubman. I had heard of her in my youth, but she was…
New PBS Documentary BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLASS Premieres Tuesday, October 11, 2022 on PBS
A new documentary on Frederick Douglass is set to premier on PBS in October. I have not seen the documentary. Here is info on the…
Rutherford B. Hayes Library & Museums Celebrating Hayes Bicentennial Birthday Oct. 4, 2022
Today is the Bicentennial of the birth of Rutherford B. Hayes, Union Civil War General and President. The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums…
October 4, 2022 Is the Bicentennial Birthday of President Rutherford B. Hayes
President Rutherford B. Hayes was born on October 2, 1822 and today is the Bicentennial of his birth. Hayes, the 19th President of the United…
Grant’s Cottage Bicentennial Gala Oct. 16, 2022 in Saratoga
Grant Cottage will celebrate the Bicentennial of Ulysses S. Grant’s Birthday with a Gala on October 16, 2022 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Proceeds from…