Posted in White Supremacy White Terror

The Colfax Massacre in History and Memory Event April 12, 2023

On April 12, 2023 Reconstruction Era National Park is offering a Ranger Talk on the Colfax Massacre of 1873. Here is the National Park Service…

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Posted in Civil War USCT

Breathing Democracy Into Spaces: The 1st South Carolina Volunteers of African Descent Event April 8, 2023

The University of South Carolina Beaufort’s (USCB) Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era is offering a free program on April 8, 2023 on…

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Posted in Civil War Monuments U.S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site Wins Award for Excellence in National Park Service History

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Missouri was honored last week in Los Angeles with the Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service…

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Posted in Civil War USCT

NPS Awards $4.5 Million to Acquire 200 Acres of Civil War Battlefields in Virginia

The National Park Service has granted $4.5 million in Battlefield Land Acquisition grants to preserve two Civil War battlefields in Virginia. The grants will provide…

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Posted in Book Reviews White Terror

New Republic Reviews “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction”

Kidada Williams’s new book  I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction is getting reviewed widely. Here are excerpts…

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Posted in Book Reviews Lincoln

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….

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Posted in U.S. Grant

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…

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Posted in Slavery Uncategorized

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…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Slavery

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…

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Posted in Civil War Monuments USCT

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…

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