News - Civil War Preservation Trust
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, President Eisenhower's granddaughter Susan Eisenhower and Medal of Honor recipient Paul W.
Celebrities and public figures provide moving recitation of Lincoln's address for Remembrance Day commemoration GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov.
SPRING HILL, Tenn., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, September 24, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander will join the national Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) to announce a fundraising campaign to save a key portion of the Spring Hill Battlefield.
PERRYVILLE, Ky., May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Secretary Marcheta Sparrow will be the keynote speaker at a ceremony marking the transfer of 54 acres of the Perryville Battlefield from the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Wal-Mart to sell "green" products from store built atop of major Civil War battlefieldWASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National retailer Wal-Mart today announced its intention to implement a system that rates the environmental and social sustainability of the products it sells -- the green equivalent of nutrition labels -- while, ironically, continuing to pursue plans to pave over more than 50 acres of historic woodlands at the Civil War-era Wilderness Battlefield, in Orange County, Virginia."Perhaps we should call this the Wal-Mart Paradox," noted Jim Campi of the Civil War Preservation Trust.
