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“We Come to Hail This Hero”: Dedicating the Admiral Farragut Statue
On the evening of April 25, 1881, President James A. Garfield sat down to write in his diary as he did most nights. Garfield had only been president for about seven weeks, and much of his time had thus far … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, Navies
Tagged Admiral David G. Farragut, David Farragut, navy, presidents, statues, Washington D.C.
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The Homestead Act, Early Republicans, and the Coming of the Civil War
Nearly everyone knows that the Emancipation Proclamation became effective on January 1, 1863. This document formally established abolition of slavery as one of the Union’s goals in fighting and winning the Civil War and enabled the North to recruit African … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Emerging Civil War, Lincoln, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged History, homestead act, presidents, Republican Party
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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Lake County, Ohio Soldiers’ Monument
Lake County is the smallest county in the entire state of Ohio. It lies along Lake Erie in the northeastern corner of the state; its county seat, Painesville, is about 30 miles from downtown Cleveland. It is a beautiful county … Continue reading
Garfield and Chamberlain
On June 14, 1881, Joshua L. Chamberlain of Brunswick, Maine, wrote a letter to President James A. Garfield. The President’s wife, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, had been ill with malaria for much of the spring, and Chamberlain offered this advice: It … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Politics
Tagged James Garfield, Joshua L. Chamberlain, presidents, what-if
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President Abraham Lincoln’s Message to Special Session of Congress, July 4, 1861
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Having been convened on an extraordinary occasion, as authorized by the Constitution, your attention is not called to any ordinary subject of legislation. At the beginning of the present Presidential term, four … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Leadership--Federal, Lincoln, Personalities, Politics, Primary Sources
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Congress, Fourth of July, Leadership, politics, presidents
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My Favorite Historical Person: James Garfield
There is an old joke that all it took to be President of the United States after the Civil War was membership in the Republican Party, a beard, and the title of Union veteran. James A. Garfield met all of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Question of the Week
Tagged civil rights, favorite17, History, James Garfield, presidents, slavery
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William McKinley and Poland’s Riverside Cemetery
We welcome back to the blog guest Gordy Morgan. Mr. Morgan, a native of the Mahoning Valley in northeastern Ohio, was inspired by the recent ECW Weekender: William McKinley by blogger and author Dan Welch, also a native of the area. … Continue reading
Happy Presidents’ Day 2017!
Wishing you a wonderful holiday, celebrating favorite presidents in American history! Looking for some articles about Washington and Lincoln?
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Holidays, Politics
Tagged George Washington, Lincoln, politics, presidents, presidents day
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James Garfield & The Civil War: An Interview with Author Dan Vermilya
Here’s one I’ve been waiting for for a while: Dan Vermilya’s new book James Garfield & The Civil War (History Press, 2015). Of course, I’m eyeball-deep in other stuff at the moment and can’t dig into the book like I … Continue reading
On the Deaths of Presidents
I’m going to pull the lens back a little bit and note the near-congruence of Lincoln’s passing with the 70th Anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s death on April 12, 1945. Death of a President in office, whether by assassination (Lincoln, Garfield, … Continue reading
