Month: April 2020
A “Torrent of Immigrants” Arrive in New York April 1869
While we think of the Reconstruction Era as a time of change and reaction in the South, the North was also being remade. Immigration spiked…
When Black and White Refugees Fled to Atlanta to Escape the Klan May 1869
Political and racial violence in the Reconstruction Era South was a factor in setting Southerners, Black and white, into motion as refugees. Ku Klux attacks…
Book Review: The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, a Deeply Flawed Classic
The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren published by Bison Books, 109 pages (1960, reissued 1998). $14.95 Paperback, $11.14 Kindle. The question you…
Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940s
Nina Silber, the author of This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America is interviewed by Gerry Prokopowicz for this podcast from…
Part 11: I Am Still Finding More Free Books on the Civil War and Reconstruction!
I have found yet another bunch of other free books. As my regular readers know, Project Muse is making hundreds of Civil War and Reconstruction…
David Blight Writes in NY Times on the History of Voter Suppression
David Blight has an interesting article in the New York Times on how current efforts to suppress the vote echo those tried during the Reconstruction…
Part 10: University of Massachusetts Civil War and Reconstruction Books Now Free Online
Another university publisher is making its books available free online. Now the University of Massachusetts Press has made dozens of books on the Civil War…
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson published by Scribner (2020). Hardcover…
Part 9: University of Tennessee Offers Its Civil War and Reconstruction Books Free Online
The University of Tennessee Press has joined a dozen other scholarly presses to make its Civil War and Reconstruction books free on Project Muse during…
Historian Greg Downs on What Modern Democrats Can Learn from Reconstruction Republicans
In an interesting essay on TPM today, historian Greg Downs writes that the Republican Party’s willingness to embrace unorthodox methods during the Civil War and…
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