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Tag Archives: Emancipation Memorial
Echoes of the Lost Cause: Autumn of the Lost Cause
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog The last month has been one of dislocation for those of us devoted to studying the Civil War and Reconstruction. Nathan Bedford Forrest was literally relocated, or at … Continue reading
Posted in Monuments, Reconstruction, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 54th Massachusetts, Alabama, American Battlefields Trust, Battle of Franklin Trust, Brown's Island, Emancipation Memorial, Franklin, John Knox, Lost Cause, Mary Bowser, Memphis, monument avenue, Nathan Bedford Forrest, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Patrick Young, Reconstruction Blog, Richmond, Rippavilla, Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Slavery, USCT, William Carney
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On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (part two)
part two of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Reconstruction
Tagged Amos Akerman, Battle of Liberty Place, Confederate Flag, Confederate monuments, Counter Reconstruction, Dukes of Hazzard, Edward White, Emancipation Memorial, Frank J. Scaturro, Hamburg Massacre, Jim Crow, King George III statue, KKK, Lost Cause, military bases, Nancy Pelosi, On-Monuments-Never-Surrender-to-Confederates
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ECW Weekender: Emancipation Memorial (Revisited)
We’re looking back into the 2019 archives and found this Weekender about the Emancipation Memorial in Washington D.C. January 1st marked the 157th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and if you’re spending a wintry day in D.C., … Continue reading
ECW Weekender: Emancipation Memorial
Thinking about heading to Washington D.C. this month or in the near future to study African American history? While the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a highlight and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is another … Continue reading
Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington D.C.
An important monument of President Abraham Lincoln sits in Lincoln Park, a park in the Capitol Hill section of Washington, D.C. This statue is seen by thousands of people each day – the Emancipation Memorial. I wonder about how many … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Charlotte Scott, Civil Rights Movement, Emancipation Memorial, Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass, freedmen, Freedmen's Memorial, historic memorials, historical controversy, John Mercer Langston, Kirk Savage, Lincoln's memory, markers-and-monuments-17, Mary McLeod Bethune, Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Ball, Western Sanitary Commission
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