Month: November 2022
Preview of New Will Smith Film Emancipation “Inspired” by Story of “Gordon”: From Tortured Slave to Freedom Fighter
Will Smith’s new film Emancipation will be released on December 2, 2022. The film is based on the story of “Gordon,” an enslaved African American…
Robert Toombs of Georgia Speech on Leaving the Senate Explains Why Confederacy Was Created
On January 7, 1861, Robert Toombs of Georgia delivered his speech explaining why he was leaving the United States Senate. I had originally planned on…
A Carolina Librarian on Recent Civil War Books that Help Challenge Your Understanding of the Civil War
Paul Birkhead, a librarian in Salisbury, North Carolina at the Rowan Public Library, wrote an interesting column in the Salisbury Post on recent books he…
A Southern Belle Reflects on “the blessings American ‘slavery’ had brought to the…black men”
In her book A Belle of the Fifties the Confederate senator’s wife Virginia Clay wrote about slavery as though its principal purpose was to bring…
Historical Marker Dedicated for General Philippe Régis de Trobriand in Sayville, Long Island, NY
A marker was erected this week in Sayville on Long Island in New York marking where Brevet Major General Philippe Régis de Trobriand is buried…
A Southern Belle Set a Child Molester Up as a Paragon of Christian Virtue for Black People
Virginia Clay-Cloptin was in her mid-30s when the Civil War began. The prominent wife of a United States senator who resigned from Congress when his…
Photo Tour of the Civil War Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument is among the most magnificent of the Civil War memorials along Long Island Sound. Set in wonderful Seaside Park,…
Louisville Exhibit on Kentucky’s Black Union Soldiers Fighting for Freedom
A new exhibit on the United States Colored Troops has opened for Veterans Day weekend at the Roots 101 African American Museum in downtown Louisville,…
Veterans Day: Four Long Island Civil War Vets Have New Headstones
Four Long Island Civil Veterans were honored at a ceremony dedicating new headstones on their graves in a cemetery in Uniondale in time for Veterans…
Grand Opening of US Colored Troops Heritage Trail Nov. 12, 2022 Near Mobile, Ala.
On November 12, 2022, the park near Mobile, Alabama at the site of the Battle of Fort Blakeley will hold the grand opening of its…
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