Tag Archives: Brazil

Echoes of Reconstruction: E. P. Alexander in Washington and the Lincoln Assassination

Posted on December 1, 2021 by ECW Guest Post

ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog We all know that Ulysses S. Grant gave uncommonly generous terms of surrender to Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April, 1865. Rather than … Continue reading →

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Weekly Whitman: A Christmas Greeting from a Northern Star-Group to a Southern. 1889-’90

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Meg Groeling

Walt Whitman sent a Christmas card to the entire country of Brazil in 1889. That year, a Brazilian field marshal named Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca overthrew Emperor Dom Pedro II and declared the nation a republic. On Christmas Day, seventy-year-old Whitman wrote … Continue reading →

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Battle of Portland Harbor, Part One

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Ryan Quint

A shout-out belongs to Chris Mackowski, who recognized this story’s drama much sooner than I did, and has been asking that I write this series for over a year now—I should have followed his advice much earlier. I grew up … Continue reading →

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