Month: November 2019
The Assault on Civil Rights and Andy Johnson’s Vetoes: Background to the Johnson Impeachment
High school history class in my youth portrayed the Johnson Impeachment as stemming from petulant Congressional Radicals enraged at the president because he removed Secretary…
Amy Murrell Taylor Wins Frederick Douglass Prize for “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps”
Amy Murrell Taylor has won the Frederick Douglass Prize from Yale University for her new book “Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee…
Franklin, Tenn. Unveils Monument to Enslaved African Americans
On Saturday a new monument was unveiled at the old slave cemetery at Carnton Plantation near Franklin, Tenn. commorating the enslaved people who are buried…
After Longstreet’s Infamous Letter Endorsing Black Civil Rights, the Destruction of His Reputation Began
This morning, I posted Gen. James Longstreet’s “infamous letter” in which he called on Southern whites to accept that the Confederacy had lost the war…
Gen. Longstreet’s Infamous Letter: On Joining the Republicans & “Betraying” the Confederates 1867
General James Longstreet was one of the most respected military leaders of the Confederacy after the war. That is, until he published an infamous letter…
The Lost Cause that Built Jim Crow: Henry Louis Gates in the NY Times
Professor Henry Louis Gates has an interesting article in today’s New York Times that examines the role of the Lost Cause and Redeemer narratives in…
CBS Sunday Morning Visits the Slavery and Reconstruction Sites of Harriet Tubman
CBS Sunday Morning has a nice travel piece visiting the sites of Harriet Tubman’s life in slavery in Maryland and freedom in Auburn, N.Y. CBS…
The Scientific Defense of the Segregation of Southern Schools by Race
From the conservative Democratic newspaper the Yorkville Enquirer comes the opinion of science in favor of racial segregation and white superiority. This South Carolina newspaper…
Did Grant’s World Tour Boost the U.S. in East Asia?
Robert Farley, a senior lecturer at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce of the University of Kentucky and a visiting professor at the…
BuzzFeed Looks at the Controversies Around the New Movie “Harriet”
BuzzFeed has an interesting discussion of some of the controversies surround the new film “Harriet” about Harriet Tubman. There has been a Twitter war against…
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