Writers Talk at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
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A pearl of wisdom here, a comment there, by authors at the Gaithersburg Book Festival.
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Emancipation: A Step into the Unknown
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About 500,000 left slavery during the Civil War. As Chandra Manning's new book details, they took enormous risks in their search for freedom.
Read MoreFinding Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office
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Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office was lost for decades. Here's how it was found.
Read MoreHow a Paragraph Helped Win the War
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Paragraph 6 of the Emancipation Proclamation ushered in a new era. Here's how.
Read MoreSilent Sentinel: Then & Now
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At Signature Theatre in Arlington, high school students learn how century-old suffrage protests resonate today.
Read MoreSorghum: The Abolitionists' Sweet
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Abolitionists sought to "grab your wallet" through non-slave labor products like sorghum.
Read MoreMathew Brady's Photographs of Civil War Alexandria
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The story behind 6 Mathew Brady photos of Civil War, Alexandria.
Read MoreL'Ouverture Hospital and My 4.5 Minutes of Fame
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I took part in a November 19 ceremony to inaugurate a historical marker at the location of L'Ouverture Hospital in Alexandria.
Read MoreWalking Tour: Women of Civil War Alexandria
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I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.
Read MoreMosby and Grant: A Post-War Relationship
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The post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.
Read MoreReconciliation? Not Exactly
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Post-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.
Read MoreArlandria: Then and (Almost) Now
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The story of Arlandria, from rural outpost to diverse urban neighborhood, presented by University of Mary Washington professor Krystyn Moon.
Read MoreFinding Descendants from Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery
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Char McCargo Bah explained how she found descendants from among more than 1,750 people buried in Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery--who can now celebrate their ancestors, many of whom escaped slavery.
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs and Julia Wilbur: Two Other "Heroines"
/With my own research in mind, I can't resist proposing Julia Wilbur and Harriet Jacobs as two other real-life heroines of Mercy Street.
Read MorePresentation in Special Collections
/Last Saturday, I spoke about Julia Wilbur and Civil War Alexandria in the Special Collections Branch of the Alexandria Library.
Read MoreEric Foner on Reconstruction
/To kick off the D.C. Historical Studies conference, historian Eric Foner spoke to a very full auditorium at the National Archives last night on "Reconstruction and the Fragility of Democracy."
Read MoreArchaeological Commission Award & Planning
/The Alexandria Archaeological Commission awarded me its Outstanding Researcher Award at a ceremony at City Hall last week.
Read MoreSWCW Wrap-Up
/I am back from giving a presentation at the annual conference of the Society for Women and the Civil War--a great meeting and weekend. My own presentation on Julia Wilbur was well received.
Read MoreMy Minute of Fame
/I gave a presentation at the Lyceum (historical aside: built in 1839, used as a hospital during the Civil War, Julia visited on a number of occasions) this past week for the Alexandria Historical Society. My husband found the most exciting part was my reserved parking space in Old Town Alexandria. So even though this photo makes my look like Mr. Magoo, here it is.
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