Month: September 2019
Video Panel Discussion on Black Suffrage During Reconstruction
C-Span has an interesting panel discussion from the November 2016 Lincoln Forum. The panel discusses African American suffrage during Reconstruction. It looks at broader issues…
NY Times Looks Back at Reconstruction Era “Troll” & Anti-Sex Crusader Anthony Comstock
Today’s New York Times has an interesting article on Civil War veteran Anthony Comstock‘s post-war career as a national scold. While I was raised on…
Virginia Conservatives Vow to Work to Place Nation Back “Under the Control of the White Race” (1867)
In 1867 a coalition of Democrats and Old Whigs formed the Virginia Conservative Party. This party would quickly become the voice of propertied white Virginians….
Book Review: This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber
This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber published by Univerity of North Carolina Press (2018) 234 pages. Hardcover $32.95…
Slavery as Cause of the Civil War: “Revisionists,” “NeoRevisionists,” and “Fundamentalists”
I was reading James Oakes’s “The Great Divide” in the New York Review of Books He offered an interesting discussion of the role of slavery…
How Union Soldiers Brought Slavery Back to Ohio in 1862
I was unaware of this until I read about it in an essay by by Christopher Barr in Crossing the Deadlines. Here are the facts…
New York Peace Democrats: Reasons for Opposing Recruiting Black Union Troops
We don’t often get the full scope of reasons for opposing the recruitment of Black soldiers. This is the view from the Journal of Commerce…
Book Review: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight published by Simon & Schuster 913 pages (2018) $37.50 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle David Blight has…
Confederate Heritage and Black History in Tension: Panel Discussion
Here is a wide-ranging discussion of the interplay of Confederate Heritage and Black History in Tension. Here is a description of the panel: Published on…
Texas After the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction by Carl H. Moneyhon
Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction by Carl H. Moneyhon published by Texas A&M Press (2004) 248 pages. Kindle $14.68, Paperback $19.95. Carl…
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