Month: February 2022
Roscoe Conkling, NY’s Patronage King and Paramour of Chief Justice’s Daughter, Profiled in WaPo
The Washington Post has an interesting article on Roscoe Conkling, the patronage king of New York’s Republican Party. Conkling entered the Republican Party as a…
Author of “A House Built by Slaves” Discusses Lincoln’s Black White House Visitors
The Guardian has an interesting interview with the author of a new book about Lincoln and African Americans. Jonathan White, a professor at Christopher Newport…
Sixty Years After the Civil War, Mississippi Legislators Were Still Trying to Expel Blacks
The Washington Post has an article today on the vote by the Mississippi legislature to create a colony in Africa where its Black population could…
Podcast: The Life and Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes is remembered today almost entirely for the irregular Election of 1876 that brought him to power and for the withdrawal of Federal…
Nashville Scene Profiles Local United States Colored Troops Reenactors
The Nashville Scene newspaper has a profile today of local African Americans exploring the history of the United States Colored Troops through reenacting. This is…
Podcast on Grant the Lover, the Fighter, and the Writer
This podcast from the Washington Post looks at U.S. Grant through his love letters and through his memoirs. There is a fascinating discussion of the…
The Confederate Daughter Who Rewrote Alabama’s Civil War History
The Birmingham New has an outstanding article on the Daughter of the Confederacy who helped rewrite the State of Alabama’s Civil War and Reconstruction history….
NY Times Reviews New Novel on the United States Colored Troops
The New York Times has a review of a new novel that tells the story of a real unit in the United States Colored Troops….
Caroline E. Janney Author of Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox Wins 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Caroline Janney is the recipient of the 2022 Lincoln Prize. Here is my own review of this book. According to the Gilder Lehrman Institute: Janney’s Ends…
NY Times Reviews New Book on Split Between William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
The New York Times reviews the new book THE COLOR OF ABOLITION: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation by Linda…
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