Month: January 2022
Jamelle Bouie on How the Domestic Slave Trade Worked
Jamelle Bouie has a big article in the New York Times Sunday Review on the Atlantic Slave Trade today, bit he also wrote a short…
Animated Map of the Slave Trade Shows All Recorded Voyages
This animated map depicting the “slave trade” has been around for a number of years. About 4% of those Atlantic slave trade ships landed in…
Refuting the Lost Cause Argument of Alexander Stephens: What About the Slavery?
Alexander Stephens was the Confederate Vice President who said that slavery was the “Cornerstone” of the Confederacy. After the Confederacy was defeated and slavery was…
Free Civil War Seminar at Longwood University in Virginia Feb. 12
From the National Parks Service: The public is invited to join the National Park Service and Longwood University at the annual free Civil War Seminar…
Montgomery, Alabama’s Confederate Memory and Black Erasure
Kyle Whitmire of the Birmingham News is writing a series called “State of Denial” which looks at how Alabama tells its history, valorizing the Confederate…
Podcast: James Buchanan’s Presidency
Five years ago the Washington Post put out a podcast series on the American presidents. As I work my way through the Civil War and…
The Man Who Was a Confederate, in the USCT, and Whose Enrollment in College Led to the Departure of Many Students
The Washington Post has an interesting article on a Black man who passed for white and who became a powerful post-war political figure during Reconstruction….
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…
Facebook Civil War History & Me
Just a reminder, while I write about modern subjects elsewhere, when I post on a history facebook group I follow the rules of the group…
What Were the Top Three Bible Verses in the North and the South During the Civil War?
In James Byrd’s new book Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood from Oxford University Press he presents data from newspapers, sermons, books and other sources…
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