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Kate Masur’s “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction” Wins Nau Prize in Civil War History

Kat Masur’s fine new book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction was awarded the prestigious 2022 John…

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Posted in Education Slavery

Report on Harvard’s Ties to Slavery Released on Two Centuries of Exploitation

Harvard, like Georgetown, Princeton, and Columbia universities, has released a report on the school’s ties to slavery. Here is how the New York Times’ article…

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Posted in Places to Visit U.S. Grant

Grant200 Event The Friendship of U.S. Grant & Thomas Nast at Grant Cottage May 14

The Grant Cottage, where Ulysses S. Grant completed his Memoirs and passed away soon afterwards, is holding educational events marking Grant’s Bicentennial. The site is…

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Essay in The Nation on W.E.B. DuBois’s Class Conflict Analysis in His Classic “Black Reconstruction”

Gerald Horne has an essay in the latest issue of the progressive magazine The Nation on W.E.B. DuBois’s groundbreaking book Black Reconstruction. The new edition…

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Posted in Book Reviews Music

NY Times Reviews “My Old Kentucky Home” New Book on Old Song

Rick Bragg reviews the new book out on a song most of hear once a year when the Kentucky Derby is run; MY OLD KENTUCKY…

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Posted in Podcasts Videos

Around the Web May 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

As you may know, I was ill with a life-threatening condition in March and April, which gave me plenty of time to lay in bed…

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Manisha Sinha Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for Work on Reconstruction Era

Manisha Sinha, history professor at the University of Connecticut, was one of five history scholars selected for Guggenheim Fellowships for 2022. She will use the…

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Posted in Book Reviews Civil Rights Acts

Kate Masur’s Excellent Book Pulitzer Finalist: “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction,”

Although the Pulitzer Prize for history went to a book on 18th Century Native American relations with English colonists and another on Cuba, Kate Masur’s…

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Posted in Civil War Lost Cause Memory of Reconstruction

Exhibit “Mustering Memory: 160 Years of Saluting the Civil War” Looks at How the War has Been Remembered Over the Years

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museum is opening a new exhibit on how the Civil War has been remembered over the years. Civil…

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Posted in Civil War Myths of Reconstruction

American Civil War Museum in Richmond Opening New Theater

The American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, is opening a new theater at its Tredegar site in June. The Richmond Times Dispatch has a…

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