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Tag Archives: Elections
Thank You for Your Role in “The Great Task”
If you voted in this year’s election, I’d like to say “Thank you.” It doesn’t matter who you voted for—what matters is that you voted. It looks like participation is going to end up north of 65%, a modern record … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Ties to the War
Tagged Elections, Gettysburg Address, Pamplin Park, Petersburg Civil War Roundtable, politics
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A Useable History: Partisanship, Citizenship, and the Presidential Election
In the introduction to Gary Gallagher’s new book The Enduring Civil War, Gallagher talks about his own Civil War origins. “My lifelong interest in the Civil War era stems from its profusion of dramatic events, compelling personalities, unlikely political and … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Politics, Ties to the War
Tagged citizenship, election of 1860, Elections, Gary Gallagher, Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War, Joanne Freeman, Lincoln, Lincoln's speech to the young men's lyceum, partisanship, The Enduring Civil War, The Field of Blood, useable history
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U.S. Grant Urges Iowans to Approve Suffrage for Black Men
The following was passed along by ECW’s friend William Underhill, one of the stalwart keeper’s of Ulysses S. Grant’s flame as a member of the Friends of Grant Cottage, the organization that staffs the site where Grant died in upstate … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Politics, Primary Sources, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Elections, Grant Cottage, Iowa, Iowa State Weekly Register, Slaves, suffrage, U.S. Grant, Voting, William Underhill
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Presentations From the 2014 Emerging Civil War Symposium-Meg Thompson
As we gear up for this years Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, we wanted to share this presentation from last years ECW Symposium. As you may recall, we were honored to have C-SPAN cover our first major symposium. Below is … Continue reading
