Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The war changed everything, but life went on

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Houstonia cerulea in bloom. People, young and old, kept dying. Couples married. Speakers came to town and drew crowds at the same brick...
Monday, January 20, 2014

'Life is a valuable sacrifice but not too great for a country like ours' – Cpl. Elmer Bragg, a Vermonter in Co. E

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Earlier this month I spoke to the Green Mountain Civil War Roundtable, which meets in the old Coolidge Hotel in White River Junction, Vt. ...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

A new year, a new list

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The trove of digitized Civil War-era documents continues to grow. It’s amazing what’s out there. Just the other day I found the diary of a ...
Friday, January 17, 2014

What the Olustee battlefield really needs

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The story on the controversy over the Olustee battlefield in today's New York Times is a missed opportunity. The story frames the debat...

The day Frederick Douglass came to town (2)

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In this continuation of Frederick Douglass’s account of his 1842 visit to Pittsfield, N.H. (part one here ), he tells of his encounter with...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The day Frederick Douglass came to town

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While researching the antislavery movement in New Hampshire, I ran across Frederick Douglass’s account of his visit to Pittsfield, N.H., in...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Amiri Baraka, 1984

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Amiri Baraka’s New York Times obituary acknowledged the public’s ambivalence toward the poet earlier known as LeRoi Jones. He was, the rep...