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==[[Interview:Pigs, Parks, and Power in the Antebellum City: Interview with Catherine McNeur]]==
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Two hundred years ago, instead of being littered with gleaming glass towers and skyscrapers, Manhattan was home to thousands of wandering pigs and livestock. Antebellum Manhattan bore little resemblance to modern Manhattan's gleaming skyline. Catherine McNeur, assistant professor at Portland State University, has written a new book, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City, published by Harvard University Press that explores a Manhattan filled with shanty towns, farmland and domesticated animals running loose in the streets.
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==[[Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy?”]]==
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[[File:Taming_ManhattanSoldiering_for_Freedome.jpgrjpg|left|thumb|150px]]As Johns Hopkins University Press recently published Soldiering for Freedom: How the calendar flipped from June to July in 1863 GettysburgUnion Army Recruited, Trained, a small market town founded in and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops written by Bob Luke and John David Smith. After the softEmancipation Proclamation was issued, rolling hills of south central Pennsylvania on Samuel Gettys farm half a century before, was unknown African Americans volunteered to most Americansfight for the Union. Four days laterSoldiering for Freedom seeks to explain how these men were recruited, on July 4used, it had become "The Most Famous Small Town in America," as boosters would come to call ittreated during the Civil War.
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