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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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