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Pres. of Grant Library Argues for Grant Promotion to General of the Armies
Anne Marshall, Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University, wrote an essay recently arguing…
LA Times Review: I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
The Los Angeles Times reviewed I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams published…
Jon Meacham reviews AMERICAN INHERITANCE: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson in NY Times
Jon Meacham reviews AMERICAN INHERITANCE: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson in this weeks New York Times…
THE LION AND THE FOX: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy Reviewed by NY Times
The New York Times recently reviewed the new book on the maneuvers of a Union diplomat and a Confederate spy over the construction of Confederate…
Penn Center Reconstruction Site in St. Helena S.C. Receives $2 Million Donation
The Penn Center in St. Helena, South Carolina was established in 1862 by Northern Abolitionists to provide educational assistance to freed Blacks seeking shelter in…
Jon Meacham On How Growing Up Near Civil War Battlefields Helped Him Become a Historian
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham has a new book out on Abe Lincoln. Today’s New York Times has an article on how Meacham came…
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country Wins A.M. Pate Award for Trans-Mississippi Civil War History
The 2022 A.M. Pate Award for the best book on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi has been awarded to Fay Yarbrough for her book…
Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery to Be Removed-But What to Do With It?
One of the most controversial Confederate monuments is the massive one at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington D.C. For nearly a decade calls for…
A Third of the People Depicted in Art at the National Capitol in Washington are Enslavers
I have posted before about the Washington Post‘s study of slavery and the United States Capitol. Today the Post discusses the representation of slaveholders in…
NY Times Asks: Was Louisa May Alcott a Woman?
Peyton Thomas, the host of the Jo’s Boys Little Women Podcast, stirred up controversy on Christmas Eve when he argued in the New York Times…
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