Month: August 2022
August 8th Celebrated in Tennessee as Day of Liberation of Slaves
Today was celebrated in Tennessee as the beginning of the end of slavery in the state. While Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in…
Grant Bicentennial Commemoration August 13 & 14 in Quincy, Illinois
The Grant Bicentennial will be marked on Saturday, Aug. 13 and Sunday, Aug. 14 in Quincy, Illinois, where Ulysses S. Grant first marched off to…
Grant’s Memoirs on List of Top Books Written by American Presidents
Last week I reported that Julia Dent Grant’s memoirs were ranked the Best Book by or about a First Lady by Town and Country Magazine….
How Religious Pamphlets Supported the Confederate Cause During the Civil War
Religion’s place in American life has become a rich subject of Civil War Era research in recent decades. Josh Waddell, a scholar at the University…
Civil War Topps Trading Cards from 1962 Depict the War’s Opening
I was looking at baseball card site today, and I came across this interesting piece on how the Topps Baseball Card company put out a…
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Confederate Apologist Appointee Resigns
Last week I wrote about Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s naming of Ann Hunter McLean of Richmond to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. McLean went…
Mick Moloney, Historian and Performer of Irish American Music of the 1800s, Passes Away
Mick Moloney, a renowned historian of Irish music, passed away last week. Moloney was instrumental in introducing modern audiences to Irish American music of the…
Book by Julia Dent Grant Tops List of Books on “First Ladies”
Julia Dent Grant’s Personal Memoirs was ranked #1 in a list of the twenty best books on the First Ladies put out this week by…
New York’s Weekly Caucasian and the Development of Political White Supremacy
As someone who spends a lot of time reading 19th Century American newspapers, I sometimes come up with a newspaper with the word “Caucasian” in…
Around the Web August 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Blogs Have you ever belonged to a Civil War Round Table? These are highly local groups of people interested in the Civil War who meet…
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