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2026

Irish Green and Black America: Race on the Edge of Civil Waroriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026
Lincoln, the Know Nothings, and Immigrant Americaoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026
The Lasting Impact of the Know Nothings on Immigrant Americaoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026
The Know Nothings: From Triumph to Collapseoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026
The Know Nothings Launch a Civil War Against Immigrant Americaoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026
The Evolution of the Know Nothingsoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026
Inside the Mind of a Know Nothingoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026
When Hatred of Immigrants Stopped the Washington Monument from Being Builtoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026
Lincoln Dashes German Immigrants’ Hopes for Emancipationoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026
Jews Fight the Ban on Rabbis as Army Chaplainsoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026
St. Louis Germans Revived by Missouri Emancipation Proclamationoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026
After Bull Run: Mutineers, Scapegoats, and the Deadoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026
English-Only in 1861: No Germans Need Applyoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026
Battle of Wilson’s Creek Drowns Immigrants’ Dream of Free Missourioriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026

2025

The St. Louis Germans Set Out To Free Missourioriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Should Lincoln Have Lost His Citizenship?original ↗
30 Dec 2025
Civil War Anniversaries: History, Marketing, and the Pesky Notion of Human Rightsoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Immigrant Regiments on Opposite Banks of Bull Runoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
The Irish Tigers From Louisianaoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
The “Sons of Garibaldi” Join the Union Armyoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Why Did the Irish Fight When They Were So Despised?original ↗
30 Dec 2025
Why the Germans Fought for the Unionoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Immigrants Rush To Join the Union Army—Why?original ↗
30 Dec 2025
Immigrant Day Laborers Help Build First Fort To Protect Washingtonoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
New York’s Irish Rush to Save Washingtonoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
The Germans Save St. Louis for the Unionoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
The Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish New York Declares Waroriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
The Rabbi Who Seceded From the Southoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Westville Cemetery Where Many Connecticut African American Soldiers Were Buried in New Haven, Ct.original ↗
29 Dec 2025
The Suppression of Pat Cleburne’s Confederate Emancipation Planoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Pat Cleburne: The South Can’t Use Black Soldiers Without Ending Slaveryoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Pat Cleburne: The Irish Confederate’s “Emancipation Proclamation”original ↗
29 Dec 2025
Most Popular Book at NY City’s Public Libraries? “James” The Story of an Escaped Slave Who Joins the USCToriginal ↗
18 Dec 2025
National Park Gift Shops and Bookstores Forced to Comply With Dec. 19 Deadline to Remove DEI Itemsoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2025
Third Anniversary of My Writing About Civil War and Reconstruction Monuments and Museumsoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2025
William McKinley Monument in Buffalooriginal ↗
5 Dec 2025
Tioga Civil War Memorial at Owego New Yorkoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
The Past, Present, and Future of the Civil War: Three Experts Discussoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2025
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865 by Damian Shielsoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
Podcast on the Ethics of Civil War History for the Historian and Parksoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2025
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Providence, Rhode Islandoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2025
Best Books on Reconstruction of 2025original ↗
13 Nov 2025
Chester A. Arthur Statue Madison Square Park New York Cityoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2025
Movie Review: Death By Lightning Series on the Garfield Assassinationoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2025
“Death By Lightning” About Pres. Garfield’s Assassination Gets Good Reviewsoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2025
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millardoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2025
Damian Shiels Talks About His New Book “Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865”original ↗
5 Nov 2025
Roswell Textile Mills Georgia Where Confederate Cloth Was Manufacturedoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2025
Confederate Gen. Albert Pike Statue Re-erected in Washingtonoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2025
Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencekoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2025
Pete Hegseth’s Religious Advisor Rev. Doug Wilson: More on Civil War and Slaveryoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2025
The First Deaths of the Civil War Were All Irish Immigrants—Was This a Coincidence?original ↗
22 Oct 2025
New Trailer Out on Garfield Assassination “Death By Lightning”original ↗
21 Oct 2025
Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett Partonoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
Carl Schurz Meets With Lincoln To Arm the Germansoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2025
Roswell Georgia Monument to Women “Lost Mill Workers”original ↗
12 Oct 2025
Immigrant Leader Carl Schurz to Lincoln: Stand Firm Against Slaveryoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
Carl Schurz: From German Radical to American Abolitionistoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
1848: The Year that Created Immigrant Americaoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
Immigrant America on the Eve of the Civil Waroriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
The Immigrants’ Civil War: Preview of an Upcoming Seriesoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameezoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
Reconstruction Law Prohibits Coin With Living President On Itoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2025
Schoharie Crossing Erie Canal New Yorkoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2025
Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays By Eric Foneroriginal ↗
7 Oct 2025
Nov. 6 Is the Premier of New Pres. James Garfield Assassination Series on Netflixoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews Jerilyn Lee on the U.S. Colored Troopsoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2025
Information About Slavery “Scrubbed” from Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Parkoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2025
Video Politics & Memory in Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New Yorkoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2025
End of the Oregon Trail Museum Oregon City, Oregonoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
Video: The War Over Memory at Bull Run Battlefieldoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
The Demise of Book Reviews on the Civil War and Reconstructionoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in NYC Loses Material on Slaveryoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2025
Ft. Sum(p)ter Artillery in Portland, Oregon(?)original ↗
18 Sept 2025
The Signage at Manassas That Is Slated for Removal by the National Park Serviceoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
Beginning September 17, 2025 Some References to Slavery Will Be Removed from Civil War Sites Under the National Park Serviceoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
Congress Considering Hegseth’s Renaming of Army Bases After Confederatesoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
Washington Post: National Park Service Is Taking Down References to Slavery at Historic Sitesoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
Civil War Flagpole at Veteran’s Cemetery Darien, Connecticutoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2025
Some National Parks Are Having Problems Dealing With Heavy Cutbacks This Yearoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2025
Painting of Rober E. Lee Will Be Rehung At West Pointoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2025
Portland Oregon Grand Army of the Republic Statueoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2025
National Museum of African History and Culture D.C.original ↗
26 Aug 2025
Pete Hegseth Religious Leader Shocking Conclusion on Slavery & Emancipation Part 5original ↗
24 Aug 2025
Lincoln Heritage Museum in Springfield Responds to Trump’s Call for End to “Woke” Coverage in History Museumsoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2025
Pete Hegseth’s Minister Says That Slavery Wasn’t All That Bad Part 4original ↗
21 Aug 2025
Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Advisor Says That Slave Trading Was Wrong But Not Slavery Part 3original ↗
20 Aug 2025
Pete Hegseth’s Minister Says That the Union War Effort Was a Campaign Against God Part 2original ↗
18 Aug 2025
Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s “Pastor’s” View on the Civil War and Emancipation Part 1original ↗
18 Aug 2025
Admiral Farragut Statue in Madison Square By Augustus Saint-Gaudensoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2025
Historian David Blight On the Threat To Historyoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2025
Soldiers’ Monument New Britain Connecticutoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2025
Confederate Monument to Be Restored at Arlington National Cemeteryoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2025
J.D. Vance on the Civil War and Citizenshiporiginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
Cooperstown New York Civil War Monument and Abner Doubleday Fieldoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2025
Civil War Institute Looks at How the Civil War Impacted on America’s Fight in World War IIoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2025
National Park Service Reviewing Books Sold at Bookstores for UnAmerican Contentoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2025
National Park Service to Close Centers Where Rangers Learn How to Be Rangersoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2025
NY Times Reports on Historical Plaques Under Review for Removal at National Park Sitesoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2025
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Delhi New Yorkoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2025
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