by MarketSmart | Aug 5, 2024
One of the great privileges—and joys—of my life has been my affiliation with the Civil War Trust and, before that, with one of its predecessor organizations, the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites. As a human being, mother, grandmother, and citizen,...
by MarketSmart | Aug 5, 2024
We both became aware as we walked the battlefields that they were there for us because someone in the past thought that they should be given to the future for generations to enjoy, study and perhaps wonder at what occurred there. For us it is a unique feeling to leave...
by MarketSmart | Aug 1, 2024
Historical records—paintings, photographs, and books—are one-dimensional. History is three-dimensional. You need the place where that history happened in order to see, touch, and understand the history. Reading about the signing of the Declaration of Independence is...