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Gilder Lehrman 2023 Lincoln Prize Awarded to Two Books on Lincoln During Civil War
The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize is among the most prestigious awards in the scholarship of the Civil War. The prize includes a purse of $50,000….
South Bend Museum Opens Exhibit on Grant’s VP Schuyler Colfax
The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana has opened a new permanent exhibit telling the story of Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president Schuyler Colfax. Colfax…
New Yorker on the Fight at the American Historical Association Over President’s Column on Slavery History
New Yorker writer Emma Green has an interesting piece in the New Yorker on the well-publicized article by the president of the American Historical Association…
Richmond Creating Center on History of Slave Trade at Shockoe Bottom
Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom was a center of the slave trade in the United States. Sales of human beings took place there throughout the 19th…
Kansas Gov. Authorizes New Mural Honoring 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment
The State of Kansas authorized the creation of a mural honoring its first Black Civil War regiment. Here is how the Kansas Reflector reported the…
Graves Found in Williamsburg, Va. Believed to Be Civil War Soldiers
Graves found near the site of Colonial Williamsburg are believed to have been dead from the Battle of Williamsburg, fought in 1862. The Washington Post…
New Civil War Historical Marker of 1862 Passover By Union Troops in Fayetteville, WV Unveiling April 3
Civil War Trails has announced that its first trail marker on Jews during the Civil War will be unveiled on April 3 in Fayetteville, West…
Kermit Roosevelt Says That March 2 Is Birthday of Modern America Because It Is When Reconstruction Act Became Law
Kermit Roosevelt III, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote that March 2 is the birthday of modern America. Here is why, according to…
Guardian Reports on Richmond’s Confederate Statue Graveyard and What Will Happen Next
The Guardian recently visited the secret location where Richmond’s dismantled Confederate statues are being stored. Here are substantial segments from its report: Richmond, Virginia, removed…
Camilla Massacre Marker Finally Goes Up in Albany, Georgia
The September 19, 1868 Camilla Massacre was one of the bloodiest in Reconstruction Georgia. Freedpeople marching in a political demonstration were attacked by whites near…
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