Getting Black Back into the Story: Why Black People Mattered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Posted by Scott Hancock on 2025-12-03

Most Sundays, especially when the weather is pleasant, I go for long walks on a bucolic, peaceful landscape, whose gently rolling hills and farms are marked off by wood split-rail fences. The landscape looks like it could have been pulled straight out of mid-nineteenth century rural United States. And that’s because in many respects it was: the nearly 2500 hectares surrounding the small town of [...]

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