Month: December 2020
Celebrating Emancipation Day in the Heart of the Confederacy January 1, 1869
January 1 was celebrated in Black communities as Emancipation Day, a commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. While Juneteenth was celebrated in Texas, in many areas…
Best 2020 Books on Black History of Civil War and Reconstruction Eras
Black Perspectves, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), asked its editors and bloggers to come up with a list of the…
The Families of U.S. Colored Troops: Rogue Historian Interviews Dr. Holly Pinheiro
The Rogue Historian, Keith Harris, has an interesting interview with Dr. Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. on his upcoming book focusing on the families of United…
Around the Web December 2020: Best of the Blogs, Zooms, and Pods on The Civil War and Reconstruction
My long-time readers know that I have taken the journal Civil War History to task for an article last year critical of historians engaged in…
Video: Historian Brooks Simpson Gives Good Overview of Reconstruction Era Policies
Brooks Simpson is one of America’s leading scholars of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew Johnson. He has written leading scholarly works on the Civil War…
Connecticut Creates Database of Its Black Civil War USCT Troops
The Connecticut State Library has digitalized its records of Black men from the state who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil…
New Curriculum Available on “Lincoln and the Jews”
The Shapell Foundation was the force behind a Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibition at the New York Historical Society on Lincoln’s interactions with the emerging Jewish…
Frederick Douglass Identifies the Cause of Death of Robert E. Lee in 1870
Frederick Douglass published the New National Era newspaper in Washington beginning in 1870. When Robert E. Lee died on October 12, 1870, his passing was…
Historian Martha Jones Writes That University Founder Johns Hopkins Was Slaveowner, Not Abolitionist
Martha Jones is a well-known historian who teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Recently she was asked to research the school’s involvement with slavery. Her findings…
When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War
On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…
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