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25th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine

Posted on by Ric Murphy
Ric Murphy the author of the upcoming book, Section 27: The Forgotten History of Arlington National Cemetery, spoke at the 25th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Sponsored by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, each year the conference brings together scholars, practitioners, and amateur historians from across the globe to discuss the history of Civil War medicine and its enduring impact today. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is the prem...
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AAHGS Coral Anniversary Journal

Posted on by Ric Murphy
Ric Murphy's book Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War was featured in the Coral Anniversary Edition of the Journal of the African-American Historical and Genealogical Society. The African-American Historical and Genealogical Society promotes the research, documentation and preservation of African American History and Genealogy, and the organization periodically promotes books of scholarly merit for reading. Visit the AAHGS Facebook and website at www.aahgs.org.
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Maurice Barbosa Testimony

Posted on by Ric Murphy
This is the most important book on the struggle for liberty that will likely ever be written, given that Ric Murphy illuminates his own multi-generational family in a continuous line, from Jamestown to Your Town. Could there be another? The magnitude of this family's engagement with the implements of liberty and justice will rock whatever foundations upon which American history had been constructed since books began being written about the Revolutionary War and freedom. With an abiding love for ...
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