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The Reconstruction Era National Historic Park is one of the newest sites in the National Park system. Created during the Obama Administration, it is located in Beaufort County, South Carolina in the Sea Islands. During the Civil War when Union forces occupied the area, most white slave owners fled the area, leaving behind thousands of enslaved African Americans.
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If you can avoid the green Reflecting Pool, try to make your way to the Lincoln Memorial. I have visited the Memorial several dozens of times, but I look forward to visiting it again to take a look at the Lincoln Memorial Undercroft where a new...
Those who immigrate to the United States are called First Generation Americans. Their U.S.-born children are said to belong to the Second Generation. Sociologists recognize an intermediate group, children born in another country but who come here while still very young. Often called Generation 1.5, these young people are both fully American and entirely integrated into their ...
After weeks of hard marching, when the “German” XI Corps reached Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, it was suffering from the scorn of many American nativists who blamed the “Dutch” for losing the Battle of Chancellorsville in May. Immigrants made up roughly half of the men in the Eleventh, but the crushing blow Stonewall Jackson delivered to the C...
When Confederate troops began slipping west and north of the Union army for their June 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, no one worried more about the prospect of Robert E. Lee’s men arriving in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania, than the hundreds of black refugees who had sought shelter in the region. Gettysburg was only a dozen miles north of the line dividing the free and slave state...