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https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2024/01/james-longstreets-other-war/ Allen Guelzo By ALLEN C. GUELZO November 30, 2023 4:53 PM 1 CommentListen Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, by Elizabeth R. Varon…
Texas Historical Commission Removes Books on Slavery and Race from Historic Sites
The Varner-Hogg plantation near Houston was a sugar plantation that was worked by sixty-six enslaved African Americans in the early 19th Century. It is a…
NY Times Reviews “LONGSTREET: The Confederate General Who Defied the South,” by Elizabeth R. Varon
The New York Times has a review of the hot Civil War and Reconstruction book of the Winter. The review is done by Brenda Wineapple,…
The Failure to Convict Jefferson Davis for Insurrection
Historian Jill Lepore has an interesting article on the New Yorker website on the failure to convict Confederate President Jefferson Davis after the Civil War….
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration & Preservation In Reconstruction America- Megan Kate Nelson
The following hour-long audio lecture was delivered on Sunday, June 11, 2023 by Dr. Megan Kate Nelson at the 2023 CWI Summer Conference at Gettysburg…
Four New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
Last month the National Park Service issued this announcement of four new sites added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network: BEAUFORT, SC- The National…
Rachel Powell, Leader of Gettysburg Occupation, Gets Nearly Five Years in Jail
Rachel Powell, who was a leader in the far-right occupation of Gettysburg on July 4, 2020, has been sentenced to nearly five years in jail…
New Opera in Houston Focuses on the Van Lew/Bowser Spy Ring in Richmond During Civil War
The Houston Grand Opera is opening a brand new work of opera on the spy ring in Richmond during the Civil War led by Elizabeth…
NY Times Reviews Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich
Jennifer Szalai did a review in the New York Times of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M….
Wall Street Journal Reviews “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction” by Fergus M. Bordewich
Today, the Wall Street Journal has a review by Roger Lowenstein the new book Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction…
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