Posted in Civil War Myths of Reconstruction

American Civil War Museum in Richmond Opening New Theater

The American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, is opening a new theater at its Tredegar site in June. The Richmond Times Dispatch has a…

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Posted in Monuments Slavery

Sixteen Sites Added to National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

The National Park Service has added sixteen sites to its Undergound Railroad Network to Freedom, according to the Smithsonian. Here is the announcement and listing…

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Posted in Civil War Videos

Civil War Institute Video Tour of Antietam with Historian/Ranger Scott Hartwig

This is the last video from this year’s Civil War Institute at Gettysburg. In it Scott Hartwig takes viewers on a tour of the Antietam…

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Posted in Abolitionists Women and Gender

New Harriet Tubman Museum Opens in Cape May, N.J. on Juneteenth

Abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman was at the heart of Cape May’s Juneteenth Celebration yesterday. She was honored by the opening of a…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Monuments

Visiting Thad Stevens Sites Near Gettysburg With WaPo

Visitors to Gettysburg may want to take in the sites connected to one of its most famous residents, Thad Stevens. The bio-pic Lincoln gave Tommy…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction

New Reconstruction Trail Opened in Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina was the capital when the state had its first Black-majority legislature. From 1865 to 1876 it was the center of a civil…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Slavery

Washington Post Publishes Comments of Plantation Tourists Complaining that They Learned About Slavery!

For about a hundred years, “Plantation Tours” in the South virtually ignored the slaves who made up the vast majority of the people living on…

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