Norman Gasbarro | February 12, 2018
In the presidential election of 1928, Governor Alfred E. Smith, the candidate of the Democratic Party who by faith was a Roman Catholic, was pitted against Herbert Hoover, the candidate of the Republican Party. Smith was the first of his religious background to be the standard bearer of a major political party. In late September […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 19, 2017
Almost exactly one year after an extremely critical blog post was published here on the Civil War Blog regarding the deplorable condition of an African American family grave plot at the Gratz Union Cemetery, a.k.a., Simeon’s Cemetery, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a small change has now been seen the grave site of Edward Crabb, Civil […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 11, 2017
This post is a continuation of the reporting on hate groups that were active in the Lykens Valley area in the years following the Civil War. It was a widely known fact that the third iteration of the Ku Klux Klan had a significant presence in the Lykens Valley and adjacent valleys during the early […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 17, 2017
No new post today in solidarity with the National General Strike and the General Strike! Philadelphia.
Norman Gasbarro | September 27, 2016
An editorial from the Harrisburg Telegraph, 15 October 1866, on the election of John W. Geary as Governor of Pennsylvania, over the avowed white supremacist Hiester Clymer: THE GOVERNOR ELECT There has never been a man elected Governor of Pennsylvania who as fairly earned the position as has John W. Geary. We do not pretend […]
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