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Neo-Confederate League of the South Member Elected to Florida Legislature
Marshall Rawson was elected to the Florida legislature’s House of Representatives on Tuesday in District 10 which covers the area west of Jacksonville with Lake…
Court Stops Work on Triumphal Arch Outside of Arlington National Cemetery
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued an order yesterday blocking work on President Donald Trump’s triumphal arch. The arch will, according to the National Park…
Frederick Douglass Home in Washington, D.C.
Frederick Douglass is one of the most studied figures of the Civil War Era. He rose to prominence as an escaped slave, an Abolitionist, a…
PODCAST: Kevin Levin on His New Biography of Robert Gould Shaw
Chris Mackowski, the founder of Emerging Civil War, interviewed Kevin Levin recently on Levin’s new book on Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the Black…
African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. is at the corner of Vermont Avenue, 10th Street, and U Street NW in the Shaw…
The Mid-Term Elections & History
This morning I was on several shared conversations with other students of history on the impact of President Trump’s defeat in the mid-term election on…
The Politics of Emancipation: Lincoln Suffers Defeat
Lincoln’s September 17, 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation had a major political flaw. It stirred up opposition to Lincoln among whites, but its principal beneficiaries, enslaved blacks, could not vote. When…
The Killing of African Americans Before the 1876 Elections in Harper’s Cartoons
One of the largest campaigns of racial violence ever unleashed in the United States was during the months up to the Election of 1876 in…
Wilmington National Cemetery Black Soldiers Section in Wilmington, North Carolina
In 1865, the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 27th, 37th and 39th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments fought in the Wilmington Campaign to liberate…
The Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War History Was Awarded to Beau Cleland for “Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy”
The Center for Civil War Research awarded the Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War History to Beau Cleland for Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates,…