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David Blight Writes in NY Times on the History of Voter Suppression
David Blight has an interesting article in the New York Times on how current efforts to suppress the vote echo those tried during the Reconstruction…
Part 10: University of Massachusetts Civil War and Reconstruction Books Now Free Online
Another university publisher is making its books available free online. Now the University of Massachusetts Press has made dozens of books on the Civil War…
Video: Final Panel of CUNY Abolitionist Conference Catherine Clinton , Eric Foner, James Brewer Stewart, and Sean Wilentz
Here is the final panel from the CUNY The Anti-Slavery Bulwark Conference on the Abolitionists and the coming of the Civil War. The final panel…
Taking Practical Steps Against Miscegenation: John Walthall’s Murder in Georgia 1871
On October 21, 1871 Maria Carter, an African American woman, testified before the Joint Select Committee of Congress on the killing of John Walthall in…
Grant Appoints Elizabeth Van Lew Postmaster for Richmond & Gen. Longstreet Collector of the Port of NOLA March, 1869
Elizabeth Van Lew ran a Union spy ring in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. James Longstreet was a Confederate general commanding a corps of infantry…
The Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor “Takes its stand” as a “White Man’s Newspaper” March 1869
I found this ad in the Mobile Register. The Independent Monitor was founded in 1837 and it went out of business in 1872. The newspaper,…
NY Times Interviews Edward Achorn, the Author of “Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.”
In his new book Every Drop of Blood Edward Achorn describes the 24 hours of Lincoln’s Second Inauguration. We all remember Lincoln address that day,…
Jamelle Bouie in NY Times on How the 15th Amendment Could Have Better Protected Black Voting Rights
Jamelle Bouie has an article in the New York Times on the shortcomings of the 15th Amendment and the attempt by Radical Republicans to craft…
Elizabeth R. Varon Wins Lincoln Prize for “Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War”
Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute announced that Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press),…
When the Daughters of the Confederacy Wanted a Statue Dedicated to “Loyal Mammies”
The United Daughters of the Confederacy were one of the most effective women’s organizations in the South in the early 20th Century. They fostered the…
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