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Interior Department Is Looking At Material From Harpers Ferry That May Be Removed

For the last three weeks I have been looking through the hundreds of files that were leaked in the Department of the Interior covert review…

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To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Scott Hartwig

To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by Scott Hartwig published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2012) My regular readers know that a…

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Commemoration of John Brown’s Raid to be Held at Harpers Ferry Oct. 15 & 16, 2022

One of the most important blows against slavery before the Civil War was John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry. A commemoration will be held there…

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