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Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era at Univ. of South Carolina, Beaufort, Launches Nov. 7, 2019
Yale professor David W. Blight speaks in Beaufort, South Carolina on Nov. 7 at the official launch of the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Institute…
Maryland Hopes Americans Will Visit Harriet Tubman Sites in State
Maryland created a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway several years ago to guide tourists through the route Tubman took to get away from that state…
Reviews of “Harriet” Movie from L.A. Times, Rolling Stone, & NPR
I have posted some reviews of the new Civil War/Reconstruction film “Harriet,” about the life of Harriet Tubman. Here are excerpts for several more from…
Poll: How Much Does the History of Slavery Impact Modern African Americans?
A new survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago shows that while older white Americans still question the long-term effects…
Podcast: Why We Can’t Buy Disney’s Song of the South on DVD or Stream It on Disney+
Disney is beginning a new streaming service that will stream the entire Disney library, with one notorious exception. The one film that won’t be streamed…
Washington Post on Slavery at the University of Virginia-It Was Everywhere!
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor has a book coming out next week that looks at the connection between Thomas Jefferson’s beloved University of Virginia and…
Elaine Massacre of 1919 Memorialized in Arkansas Recalling Mass Killing of Black Families
1919 was a year of extreme racial violence in America. The “Red Summer” of that year saw what may have been the largest massacre of…
“Who wrote women out of Civil War history?” An Essay by Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple has an interesting essay in The New Republic on why historians long ignored the roles of women in the American Civil War. As…
NY Times: The Impact of Forced Medical Research on Slaves on Modern Medicine
Illustration: Escaped slave John Brown The next installment of the New York Times’s new series commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first…
Washington Post Publishes Comments of Plantation Tourists Complaining that They Learned About Slavery!
For about a hundred years, “Plantation Tours” in the South virtually ignored the slaves who made up the vast majority of the people living on…
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