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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…
Ford’s Theater Helps Educators Teach About Reconstruction and the Civil War
Education Week has an interesting article on how teachers are preparing for back-to-school discussions in class on the Civil War and Reconstruction. The article looks…
I’ve Heard of Ida B. Wells. Why Lie and Say She Is Unknown?
There is a meme going around about a well-known African American journalist. I reproduce it below. Facebook pulled the meme because it is obvious fake…
In Defense of a White Man’s Government in Alabama January 1868
The Montgomery Advertiser January 14, 1868 gives an insight into what White Southern conservatives were fighting for during Reconstruction. It was “A White Man’s Government.” I…
Look What Just Dropped: Harriet Tubman BioPic Trailer Out!
The trailer just dropped for the new film Harriet about the life of abolitionist, Union spy, and African American civil rights leader Harriet Tubman. The…
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