July 22, 2019

Tag: Civil War

It’s Old Home Week!

Bill Burton

It’s Old Home Week!

The twin pulls of urban industrialization and westward migration that overtook America after the Civil War was devastating to many small towns in New England and the  Middle Atlantic States. In the four decades ending in 1900, despite massive European immigration, the population of

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Civil War Monuments

Dr. Terry Bryan

Civil War Monuments

The Civil War was still fresh in many minds in the early days of postcards. Communities spent large amounts to commission memorials to their hometown soldiers and sailors. An entire generation of young men was decimated in the horrible conflict. The countryside was strewn

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