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Silas Chandler Survived the Confederacy and the Lost Cause
I first met Myra Chandler Sampson online back in 2010.
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Tom Hanks and Frederick Douglass on the Importance of Contingency
You will find no better explanation of the concept of contingency than in the movie Cast Away. Following his rescue from a small deserted island, in a…
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The Fourteenth Amendment Protects All Of Us
Everyone is talking about birthright citizenship.
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I Needed To Read Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address Today. You Should Too.
On this inauguration day I find myself, once again, reading Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, which was delivered 160 years ago this coming…
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The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting January 6, 2021
There has been no shortage of debate in recent years concerning how we remember and commemorate our collective past in public spaces.
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Will Confederate Monuments Return Under Donald Trump?
It’s a question that many are wondering about, especially in the Confederate heritage community.
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Grape & Canister
A roundup of Civil War news, books, videos, and an Otis pic
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Tracking Down a Lost Photograph of Robert Gould Shaw
I am in the process of finalizing the images that I will use for my forthcoming biography of Robert Gould Shaw, which will be published by the…
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January 6 and the Fear of Forgetting
I remember exactly where I was on the afternoon and early evening of January 6, 2021.
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The Emancipation Proclamation Freed Thousands of Enslaved People on January 1, 1863.
On January 1, 1863 Boston’s abolitionist community gathered on a cold, cloudy, and gloomy day in anticipation of the news that Abraham Lincoln had…
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