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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...