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“. . . There was at the time of the Civil War, a group of young men and women hardly more than boys and girls, who frequented our house, played croquet on the lawn and bowled in the long, low bowling alley; old when I remember it, and covered from…
Read More »Read about the events of Jan. 4-11, 1861, in the continuing special feature on the Civil War sesquicentennial at the NYTimes. “Firing on the “Star of the West” from the South Carolina battery on Morris Island, Jan. 10, 1861.” (illustration and caption courtesy of NYT)
Read More »The NYTimes continues its series on the Civil War with “The Road from Secession to Sumter.” Read the latest installment here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, historian Jill Lepore, who has spoken in Lowell in the Parker Lectures series, writes that Longfellow’s famous poem about Paul Revere was prompted more by the coming Civil War than by the poet’s recollection of the Revolutionary War. Read the article here, and get the NYT if you…
Read More »“On June 29,1995, the U.S. Post Office issued a set of 20 commemorative stamps showing 16 individuals and 4 battles of the Civil War. Official first day of issue ceremonies were held in front of the Cyclorama Center at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. A pictorial cancellation showing…
Read More »In the early 1960s, I was following my father’s lead and collecting stamps. I wasn’t obsessive about it, but I enjoyed the hobby for a while, particularly as the stamps were small windows onto history and geography. During the centennial of the Civil War (1961-65), the US Postal Service issued…
Read More »The NYTimes online has an ongoing series about the Civil War, started in anticipation of the 2011 anniversary year when we will see lots of attention being paid to the beginning of the Civil War. This blog has already moved in that direction. Today’s entry at the NYT site is…
Read More »UMass Lowell History professor Michael Pierson gave a spirited lecture today at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags as part of the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture series. Pierson, the author of two books on the Civil War ( “Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics” and…
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