Tag: IMMIGRANTS CIVIL WAR
Great Debates: Abraham Lincoln and the German Journalist
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Henry Villard first saw future president Abraham Lincoln at the August 27, 1858 debate in Freeport, Illinois. Both...
Book Review: “The Forgotten Irish” Tells Stories of Immigrant Soldiers and...
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Damian Shiels’s new book, The Forgotten Irish, opens with the story of a New York “boy” who would...
Three New Books Explore New York City’s Immigrant History
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I am always on the lookout for new scholarship on immigrant history. Luckily, we have three new books...
Felix Brannigan: The Racist Irish Immigrant Becomes a Defender of Black...
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Felix Brannigan wrote to his sister that he wanted to leave the army in 1862 when he found...
When a Ban on the Chinese Was Proposed and Frederick Douglass...
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Americans’ fear of non-white, non-Christian immigrants began in 1848 with the arrival of the first ship full of...
Felix Brannigan: The Irish Soldier Wins the Medal of Honor Instead...
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Felix Brannigan made it into the history books with his July 1862 letter declaring that he did not...
Felix Brannigan: An Irish Soldier’s Racism and Redemption
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When Felix Brannigan wrote to his sister in the summer of 1862 he probably did not think that...
The African Immigrant and the Liberation of Charleston’s Slaves in the...
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When Confederate gunners opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, black men were barred from serving...
An African Immigrant Learns About Segregation in 1860s New York City
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Nicholas Said, soon to be one of the first African immigrants to serve in the United States Army...
The Civil War Immigrant Who Was a Slave in Africa, Asia,...
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The first two battle-ready black regiments in the Union Army were the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry....