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NY Times Reviews New Book “The Kidnapping Club” on NY Ring that Kidnapped Blacks Into Slavery
The New York Times has a review of The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan…
“Deconstructing Confederate Monuments” A Discussion About History and Monumentation
Kevin Levin, Dina Bailey and Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders participated in a discussion on Confederate monuments and how we understand history. The Zoom discussion at Grant Valley…
Plantation Weddings Are Fun If You Can Forget the Slavery: NY Times on Plantation Popularity
The New York Times has an interesting article on the growing popularity of the “Plantation Wedding.” The houses are big and sometimes beautiful, but the…
Washington Post on the Dangerous Life of a Black Politician in Reconstruction Georgia
The Washington Post has an interesting article on a Black politician who risked assassination to represent freedpeople in Georgia. Here are some excerpts from the…
Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America Video Talk by Thomas Brown
Our friends over at the Journal of Civil War History have posted another great Zoom program. This one is on Civil War monuments. Professor Thomas…
Historians Reflect on #WeWantMoreHistory Day of Action
Greg Downs, Hilary N. Green, Scott Hancock, and Kate Masur, the historians behind the #WeWantMoreHistory Day of Action, offer some reflections on the event on…
Dr. Stephanie McCurry: The Confederate States of America Free Zoom Webinar Recording
Our friends at the Journal of the Civil War Era have been organizing webinars on Zoom to keep the historical discussion fresh. I will post…
Historians Day of Action at Civil War Sites this Saturday
Kate Masur and Greg Downs, editors of the Journal of the Civil War Era have issued a call for historians to do “good history” this…
Eric Foner on the Difficult Struggle for Economic Advancement of Freedpeople
Eric Foner was interviewed this weekend by The Hill on lessons from Reconstruction. Foner focuses on why economic advances have been so hard to come…
A “Torrent of Immigrants” Arrive in New York April 1869
While we think of the Reconstruction Era as a time of change and reaction in the South, the North was also being remade. Immigration spiked…
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