Jacqueline Jones, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was announced as the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize today for her No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Amazon link). Read more.
On Memorial Day, 1886, Civil War veterans from Boston and New York gathered at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Charles Rosenberg forwards this photo from an encampment yesterday at the Jackson Homestead in Newton:
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