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For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek published by Kent State University Press (2016). $37.95 Hardcover, $18.49 Kindle For Their…

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Southern Historical Society Holds First Meeting May 1869 for “history of the war from a Southern stand-point”

The first meeting of what would become a prime defender of the justice of the  Confederate cause was held in May, 1869 in New Orleans….

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“An unwavering advocate for the supremacy of the Caucasian race”

I found this ad for a newspaper called The Independent Monitor in the Mobile Register. It states right up front that this is a Whites-Only…

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Book Review: Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris

Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris published by LSU Press (2014) Hardcover $42.50 Kindle $26.49. ​…

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