Posted in Civil War USCT

Free Civil War Seminar at Longwood University in Virginia Feb. 12

From the National Parks Service: The public is invited to join the National Park Service and Longwood University at the annual free Civil War Seminar…

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Posted in Podcast Podcasts

Podcast: James Buchanan’s Presidency

Five years ago the Washington Post put out a podcast series on the American presidents. As I work my way through the Civil War and…

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Posted in Black Officeholders USCT

The Man Who Was a Confederate, in the USCT, and Whose Enrollment in College Led to the Departure of Many Students

The Washington Post has an interesting article on a Black man who passed for white and who became a powerful post-war political figure during Reconstruction….

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Posted in Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Exhibit Opening in New York City

The New York Historical Society is opening a special exhibit on Frederick Douglass on Feb. 11, 2022. From the press release: The work of one…

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Posted in Lost Cause Memory of Reconstruction Monuments Suffrage White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics White Terror

Alabama City of Eufaula Purposely Forgets Its History of 1874 Massacre of Black Voters

The Birmingham News has an in-depth article  by Kyle Whitmire on how Eufaula, Alabama ignores is history. This is a city ostensibly steeped in history,…

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Posted in Dunning School Memory of Reconstruction White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

Martin Luther King on How the History of Reconstruction Was Distorted

Martin Luther King  delivered a speech in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate the 100th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois. In his speech,…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Monuments USCT

Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, N.C. Hosting Weekly Programs on USCT

The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, N.C. attracted a lot of attention in 2021 for its new United States Colored Troops statuary group titled “Boundless.”…

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The New Attack on W.E.B. DuBois Is Very Much the Same Old Attack

W.E.B. DuBois was already getting a lot of attention last year because of his association with Critical Race Theory. The fact that he has been…

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Posted in Civil War Monuments

Podcast Examines How Civil War Is Remembered at Battlefields and in Monuments

Laura DeMarco discusses her new book “Lost Civil War: The Disappearing Legacy of America’s Greatest Conflict” and Karen Cox, professor at the University of North…

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Posted in Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan’s Anti-Asian Campaign in Reconstruction Era California

The Atlantic Magazine has an article on the Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan in California. Historian Kevin Waite has identified a dozen attacks by the…

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