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Civil War Memorial Vineland NJ

Vineland, New Jersey was founded in the midst of the Civil War in 1861. Charles Landis, a Utopian, started it as a planned community. He…

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Soldiers Monument Ansonia Connecticut

Ansonia, Ct. is a small city of 19,000 inhabitants. At the time of the Civil War, the area had fewer than 3,000 people. The Soldiers…

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Judge Tells National Park Service to Stop Making Changes to Presidents’ House in Philadelphia

Last week a Federal Court judge was extremely critical of the National Park Service (NPS) and the Trump administration for having surreptitiously taken down panels…

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Judge Says the Removing of Panels on Slavery from the Presidents’ House in Philly Is “Horrifying”

Last week, the Trump Administration took down historical panels outside the Presidents’ House in Philadelphia that referred to slavery. The house was lived in by…

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Soldiers and Sailors Monument Atlantic City NJ

When you arrive by bus from New York and Baltimore to go to the casinos you may see what looks like a monument in the…

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Site of Grand Army of the Republic Encampment Atlantic City

Atlantic City now is known as a place of gambling, Casinos line the boardwalk, with buses arriving from all over the Mid-Atlantic region. Before that…

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Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall

Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform by Anne E. Marshall published by University of North Carolina…

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Louisiana Opening Up Exhibit on Reconstruction in Baton Rouge

A new exhibition is opening up at the Old State Capitol in Louisiana called “A More Perfect Union”. The subject is Reconstruction. Mary Durusau, the …

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Recruiting the Irish Brigade, Creating the Irish American

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Defeat at Bull Run had left the Union war plan in tatters. Lincoln had assumed that the Confederate rebellion could be suppressed…

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Panels Explaining Washington’s Involvement With Slavery at Independence National Park Are Removed

Yesterday, three National Park employees took down panels explaining George Washington’s involvement with slavery. The signs were placed around George Washington’s home in Philadelphia where…

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