Posted in Memory of Reconstruction White Supremacy White Terror

Boston Symphony Orchestra to Perform Passion of Octavius Catto About Reconstruction Black Leader

According to Broadway World, conductor André Raphel will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra on March 3, 4 and 5, 2023 performing a piece about a…

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Posted in Monuments Places to Visit

Horace Greeley Monument NY City Hall Photo Tour

Note: This page is under construction. The Horace Greeley Monument in New York City’s City Hall Park, was originally dedicated  on September 20, 1890 directly…

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Posted in Frederick Douglass

Penn State Holding Virtual Frederick Douglass Project Feb. 8 Free

Penn State and The Theater of War will be offering the virtual Frederick Douglass Project for free on February 8. Anyone may register here. According…

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Posted in U.S. Grant

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews Slavery

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…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil War

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…

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Posted in Places to Visit

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…

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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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