Month: December 2019
Posted in Abolitionists African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Frederick Douglass Memory of Reconstruction
Savannah Is Hosting Fans of Frederick Douglass With Art and History Exhibits
The New York Times has an article on why Savannah has become a pilgrimage site for those interested in Frederick Douglass, a man who never…
Posted in 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction U.S. Grant
NY Times: Thoughts on the 150th Anniversary of the Start of U.S. Grant’s Presidency
This is the Sesquicentennial of the Grant Presidency. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times Opinion columnist, has a thoughtful article on the hopes engendered 150 years…
How Reconstruction Fantasy “Song of the South” Became “Splash Mountain” by Dropping All the Black People
Here is the last episode of the podcast Six Degrees of Song of the South which is devoted to the Disney Reconstruction fantasy Song of…
Kevin Levin’s “Searching for Black Confederates” Named a Scholar’s Choice for Favorite History Book of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine
Yesterday I posted the Smithsonian Magazine’s picks for the best books of 2019. Today I am posting the Civil War/Reconstruction Era books named in the…
Posted in U.S. Grant
Gideon Welles: Democrats Should Have Nominated General Hancock to Run Against Grant 1868
In 1868, Union army commander Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Democrat Horatio Seymour in the presidential race. In his Journal for Nov. 17, 1868, Sec….
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