Month: September 2019
Negroes Wanted! Want Ads for Slaves in the Last Years of Slavery
We sometimes hear it said that slavery in the South would have died out even without the Civil War. If you read Southern newspapers right…
Kevin Levin Article on “What the Civil War Can Teach Us About 9/11 Remembrance”
Historian Kevin Levin has an article on “What the Civil War Can Teach Us About 9/11 Remembrance” on The Atlantic Magazine’s website today. Living 30…
A New Monument to Emancipation in a Small Virginia Town
Hundreds of Southern towns and cities erected Confederate statues in the decades after the Civil War. Almost no statues or monuments marked the military service…
Great Interview With Eric Foner in New Yorker on His New Book
Eric Foner’s new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution is due out in a week. The book by…
NY Times Reviews Book That Asks Whether Germans Have a Truer Memory of Their Atrocities Than We Do of Ours
The New York Times has an interesting review of the new book LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman…
General Frank Blair Warns That “Negro Suffrage” Leads to “Adulteration of Our Anglo-Saxon Race”
Frank Blair was a leading member of the prominent Blair Family. Before the war he was a Free-Soil Democrat. During the war he was a…
NY Times Article by Eric Foner on “The Lost Promise of Reconstruction”
The New York Times has an interesting article from historian Eric Foner on The Lost Promise of Reconstruction. From the article: Among the unanticipated consequences…
1619 Podcast: Slavery and the Birth of American Music
The 1619 project at the New York Times has another new podcast. This one looks at slavery and the birth of American music. This one…
Part 3: Why Academic Historians Should Thank Their Colleagues on Social Media and Why They Are Important for Democracy
This is my third blog post on historian Earl Hess’s article on the Internet and Civil War history that appeared this week in the journal…
Part 2: Academic Historians Zero in on What They Don’t Like About Using Social Media: Hint-He Lives in Boston
Yesterday I wrote about an article in the scholarly journal Civil War History by historian Earl Hess on “The Internet and Civil War Studies.” The…
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