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This Dust was Once the Man
This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just, and resolute under
Whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States.
--the Walt Whitman poem, written on Lincoln's assassination, that CWFMNY member Carmen Delgado alluded to in her talk on October 21, 2009.
A recommended website for past & present Civil War photography from Bob Gagnon via Jim Santagata Just click here or below 
A few photos from our inaugural trip to Philadelphia
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Audio Podcasts
Third Annual
Wm. H. Seward Book Award Winner
 
Photo by Nathan Burkan
Midnight Rising:
John Brown
and The Raid that Sparked
the Civil War
Tony Horwitz
Author Click here to listen
Matthew Borowick
Civil War Economics
Recorded April 21, 2010, at the CWFMNY meeting
54 minutes
 
Tom Fleming
The Murder of
Major General Nelson
Recorded March 24, 2010, at the CWFMNY meeting
54 minutes
The Joint Committee
on the Conduct of the War
A paper given to The Civil War Forum of Metro NY by Jim Santagata
on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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The Civil War Trust
& Click here to see and/or download their excellent PowerPoint slideshow
(May take a minute or two) | 
See also the speaker's website
| Dinner & talk
on the third Wednesday of May
May 15, 2013
A Disease in the Public Mind
A New Understanding
of the Civil War
Thomas Fleming
Author Note change for May only 5:30 pm: Cash bar | 6:00 pm Dinner
O'Casey's, 22 East 41st Street,
off Fifth Avenue | RSVP
Price for dinner and talk: $40 for members, $50 for non-members (or members who don't RSVP)
The contact person for April-June for confirming your attendance is Carmen Delgado; please contact Carmen no later than Sunday evening May 12th, at 212 873-1999, or cgracielad@gmail.com The meeting will begin promptly at 6:00PM with a cash bar at 5:30PM. |
CWFMNY
2013 Calendar
| 2013 | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | May 15 | A Disease in the Public Mind – A New Understanding of the Civil War | Tom Fleming | Author | | June 19 | The Civil War Through the Eyes of Three Remarkable Women | Professor Carol Berkin | Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center | | July 17 | The Seward Award presentation | | | | August | no meeting | | Sept 18 | A Timely Diversion: The Union 12th Corps (Slocum) at Gettysburg | Kristopher White | Author | | Oct | TBA | | | | Nov 20 | Sherman’s Demons | Jim Santagata | Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York | | Dec | TBA | | |
Spring 2013
CWFMNY Tour 
New information, click here
Walmart Drops Wilderness Plan In an unexpected development on the day that a trial was  scheduled to begin in the case, Walmart announced that it has abandoned plans to pursue a special use permit previously awarded to the retail giant for construction of a supercenter on the Wilderness Battlefield.
See http://www.civilwar.org/take-action/speak-out/wilderness-walmart/ |
| Spring 2013
CWFMNY Tour
Departs May 16th, 7:15 am
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NEW Podcast 
Photo by Nathan Burkan
Grant’s
Last Battle
Chris Murkowski
Author
Click here to listen
55 minutes
Recorded March 20, 3013
Our organization's newsletter:
New
The Spring 2013
Sharpshooter
Podcast
Henry Halleck:
his Genius and his Dark Side
 
Photo: Nathan Burkan Podcast of Jim Santagata's talk to the Forum on December 15, 2010
Click here to listen
Was the Civil War
Inevitable?
Photo: Nathan Burkan
Jamie Malanowski
The New York Times
Podcast of Jamie Malanowski's
talk to the Forum on March 16, 2011
Click here to listen
Click here
to go to David S. Reynolds' New York Times review of Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
NY Times Story
on the CWFMNY /
Ely Parker talk
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See
Nathan Burkan's Album of snapshots from recent meetings
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