October 2, 2009 | Posted by javal For nearly two decades, he and his wife published The Winchester Star and other local papers, but his most lasting words might be the ones on his tombstone — that roughly 450-word treatise and list of accomplishments is carved into a seven-foot-tall slab of Barre, Vt. granite.
Death was no surprise to Peter Jorgensen. He and [...]
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October 1, 2009 | Posted by javal City workers made a startling discovery in Socorro Tuesday when they dug up a human skull and pieces of a casket reopening a fight over what may be a Civil War cemetery.
The February 1862 Battle of Valverde brought wounded Confederate soldiers to Socorro, and some historians believe those who later died were buried under what [...]
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October 1, 2009 | Posted by javal Merrill D. Peterson, 88, a University of Virginia professor whose writings on Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and other figures made him a renowned historian of 19th-century America, died Sept. 23 at a retirement home in Charlottesville. He had pneumonia.
Dr. Peterson was teaching at Brandeis University when he wrote his first book, “The Jefferson Image in [...]
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September 29, 2009 | Posted by javal C. Peter Jorgensen died of cancer at his home in Tunbridge, Vt., on Sept. 25 at age 68.
He grew up in Arlington, Mass., where he joined the auxiliary fire department when he was 18.
During college he and friends ran a Boston news photo agency that supplied fire and emergency services photos to wire services and [...]
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August 24, 2009 | Posted by javal Bill Scaife’s maps of Civil War battles were drawn with such intimate detail you could use them to pinpoint how, exactly, skirmishes unfolded. He’d take USGA topographic maps, then overlay them with information and facts of what transpired.
And because of that, enthusiasts could stand on a battlefield and relive history.
“He did great maps,” said Leon [...]
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July 14, 2009 | Posted by javal Kenneth M. Stampp, 96, a historian who helped transform the study of slavery in the United States by exposing plantation owners as practical businessmen, not romantics defending a noble heritage, died of heart ailments July 10 at a hospital in Oakland, Calif. He had vascular dementia.
His death was confirmed by the University of California at [...]
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May 26, 2009 | Posted by javal Kentucky lost its last living daughter of a Civil War soldier Thursday.
Eva Martin, 94, of Bethelridge in Casey County, was the 14th child of John Green Watson, who served as a private in the Union Army’s 1st Kentucky Calvary.
That division, nicknamed the “Wild Riders,” fought in Kentucky during the Battle of Wildcat Mountain in the [...]
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May 19, 2009 | Posted by javal David Herbert Donald, a leading American historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of the abolitionist statesman Charles Sumner and the novelist Thomas Wolfe, died Sunday in Boston. He was 88 and lived in Lincoln, Mass.; Wellfleet, Mass.; and Key West, Fla.
His death was confirmed by his [...]
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April 28, 2009 | Posted by javal A crowd of some 50 friends attended a dedication service in Newtonia on Sunday to honor Gail Elery, long-time resident of the town and former city clerk.
The patriotic service, led by Newtonia Mayor George Philliber, was held at the base of a new flagpole and memorial bench constructed on city property near the former Newtonia [...]
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April 8, 2009 | Posted by javal Steven Lee Carson, 66, a former archivist and editor who became a historian and lecturer on presidential history, notably as an authority on the life of President Abraham Lincoln, died March 27 at his home in Silver Spring after a heart attack.
During the past few years, he was a presidential historian at the Woodrow Wilson [...]
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