Month: August 2021
Posted in Slavery
The Second Amendment & The Right to Kill Black People in Slavery and Reconstruction
Slate’s legal writer Dahlia Lithwick recently interviewed historian Carol Anderson, professor and chair of African American studies at Emory University, on her new book The…
Posted in Civil War
When the Confederates Planned to Blow Up Libby Prison to Kill the Prisoners in the Event of a Raid
In February 1865 the Joint Select Committee of the Confederate Congress appointed to investigate the conditions and treatment of prisoners of war issued a report…
Christiansburg, Virginia to Install Panels on the Town’s Black History During Slavery and Reconstruction
The Montgomery Museum of Art & History in Christiansburg, Virginia and the Christiansburg Institute has approval to place three interpretive panels in the town square…
Posted in Civil War
Around the Web August 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
The month on Civil War and Reconstruction social media started a little slow, maybe everyone was caught up with Fourth of July barbeques, but things…