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Friday, July 1, 2022

NPR's Highly Dubious "Facts" and "Myths" about Juneteenth

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"Four enduring myths about Juneteenth are not based on facts,"  asserts the headline of a June 20 National Public Radio piece whic...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Juneteenth as a Hopeful Symbol of National Unity

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  (Galveston mural by Reginald Adams) In June 1861, when the jayhawker James Montgomery was commissioned by the governor of Kansas as “Co...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Juneteenth Talk Coming Up Saturday; Plus Second Review

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  I'll be giving a free talk (with Q&A) about Juneteenth this Saturday, June 18, at 2 pm at the New York State Military Museum in Sa...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Old Newspaperman Returns from New York

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  This is only Civil War related because I was speaking last night to the Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York , an hospitable and appre...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Casemates in Review

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A layer of sod in the wall helped protect this barracks against cannon balls, according to one of the excellent guides I talked to Friday at...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Grant and Juneteenth

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 The Friends of Grant Cottage blog has put up a post by me today on Ulysses S. Grant and Juneteenth which can be found here . Tomorrow eveni...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Sojourner Truth's Grandson Served with Montgomery

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  In this 1863 photo of Sojourner Truth (in the Library of Congress), she holds in her lap a photograph of James Caldwell, her 19-year-old g...
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Robert C. (Bob) Conner
Robert C. (Bob) Conner, a former journalist, is the author of the biography James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior. It was published in April 2022 by Casemate, which is also reissuing in paperback his 2013 biography, General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth". He also wrote the historical novel The Last Circle of Ulysses Grant, which was published in 2018 by Square Circle Press. He won two first-place writing awards from the New York Associated Press Association for newspapers with circulation between 50,000 and 200,000, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University. Bob Conner and his wife Barbara have three grown children. They live in upstate New York, where he volunteers at Grant Cottage and the Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum, and is an active Rotarian.
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