Month: March 2020
Part 2 The Classics: Even More Free Online Civil War and Reconstruction Books from University of North Carolina Press
Project Muse is making hundreds of books from the University of North Carolina Press about the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras free online. Yesterday I…
Part 1: Free Online Access to Hundreds of Great Civil War and Reconstruction Books from University of North Carolina Press
Nothing is good about the Corona Pandemic except that Project Muse is making hundreds of books about the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras free online….
Video: Panel on the Revolutionary War Origins of the Abolitionist Movement from CUNY Conference “The Antislavery Bulwark”
Here is the first panel in the CUNY Conference on Abolition from 2014. The conference was called “The Antislavery Bulwark.” The video of the panel…
Video: David Blight at CUNY Conference on Abolition “The Anti-Slavery Bulwark”
The City University of New York CUNY Grad Center conference on Abolition and the Civil War took place in 2014. Videos of the conference have…
Andrew Johnson’s Final “State of the Union” Analyzes the Problems of Reconstruction Dec. 1868
On December 9, 1868, President Andrew Johnson delivered his fourth and final “Annual Message” to Congress. We now call this the State of the Union….
The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America by William G. Thomas
The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America by William G. Thomas published by Yale University Press (2011) $22.00 Paperback $15.99…
The Suffering of Immigrants in North Carolina December 1868
Many Southern states made attempts to encourage immigration to replace Black labor lost through the end of slavery. While some European and Chinese immigrants did…
“…our friend is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux ” A Klan Killing of a Carolina State Senator
This letter was sent from Albion Tourgee to Gen. Joseph Abott reporting a killing of a Republican legislator in North Carolina in the Spring of…
May 1865: African American Community in New Orleans Celebrates the First Anniversary of Its School for Black Children
The celebration of a year of learning by the emancipated Black children of New Orleans. Reconstruction began in New Orleans three years earlier than in…
White Immigrants Needed to Replace the Dying Black Race Alabama January 1869
After Emancipation, one of the continuing dreams of many white Southerners was that the “Black race” would die out or be exterminated. In this editorial,…
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