Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction

University of South Carolina Held Teacher Training on Reconstruction Era

For years, the University of South Carolina’s (UofSC) Center for Civil Rights History and Research held a three week training for teachers on Reconstruction in…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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