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Book Review: Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment

by Kevin Donovan

Posted on September 22, 2026

Military Government vs. Smallpox: Alexandria’s Claremont Hospital

by Madeline Feierstein

Posted on March 2, 2026

Book Review: The Road was Full of Thorns: Running toward Freedom in the American Civil War

by Tim Talbott

Posted on January 6, 2026

Liberating Winchester?

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on May 25, 2022

Occupied Cities of the South: Alexandria, Virginia

by Caroline Davis

Posted on March 24, 2022

“The Escapes…Are Very Numerous”

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on May 26, 2021

Patriotic Covers and Northern Attitudes about Slavery

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on September 9, 2020

Cartooning Contraband: Humor in Harper’s Weekly

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on August 14, 2020

Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: “Our hospital cares and labors made fast friends of many of us” (Part 17)

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on July 19, 2020