Posted in Book Reviews Lincoln

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War Native Americans

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…

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Posted in Civil War Monuments White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

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…

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Posted in Civil War Slavery White Supremacy

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…

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Posted in Women and Gender

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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Posted in Civil War Slavery

David Blight Tries to Answer the Question of Whether the Civil War Was Inevitable

David Blight, the Yale historian who has been a leading interpreter of the Civil War Era for more than a quarter century, has an extended…

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Posted in Movies Slavery

Washington Post Gives Background on “Whipped Peter” of New Film “Emancipation”

Today’s Washington Post gave some interesting background on the new Will Smith film Emancipation. The Washington Post movie reviewer gave the film a largely negative…

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Civil War Books & Authors Names Best Book of 2022

The blog Civil War Books and Authors announced its 2022 Top Ten Books List this week. Here are the picks. Head over to the blog…

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The Bestselling Civil War Books of 2022

The Civil War Monitor has published its annual Best Seller List of the top-selling books on the American Civil War Era according to NPD Bookscan….

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Civil War Monitor Publishes Its “Best Civil War Books of 2022” List

Every year the respected history magazine Civil War Monitor publishes its “Best Civil War Books” of the Year list. You can read the whole list…

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