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Watch Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War” Recorded in Brooklyn Today

Historian  Heather Cox Richardson gave a talk today at the Brooklyn Historical Society on her new book How the South Won the Civil War which…

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Eric Foner Reviews New Book on Radical Republicans in The Nation Magazine

Eric Foner reviews LeeAnna Keith’s new book on the Radical Republicans in this week’s The Nation Magazine. The preeminent historian of the Reconstruction Era gives…

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Posted in Slavery White Supremacy Women and Gender

2020 Pulitzer Prize in History Goes to Book on Freedwoman Who Sued Her Enslaver During Reconstruction

The Pulitzer Prize in history was awarded to W. Caleb McDaniel for his new book about slavery and reparations during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Sweet…

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Courageous Journalist Ida B. Wells Honored by Pulitzer Prize Committee for Struggle Against Lynching

Ida B. Wells was one of the strongest voices for Black freedom during the Jim Crow Era. An outstanding journalist, she campaigned against lynching alongside…

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When Black and White Refugees Fled to Atlanta to Escape the Klan May 1869

Political and racial violence in the Reconstruction Era South was a factor in setting Southerners, Black and white, into motion as refugees. Ku Klux attacks…

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Book Review: The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, a Deeply Flawed Classic

The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren published by Bison Books, 109 pages (1960, reissued 1998). $14.95 Paperback, $11.14 Kindle. The question you…

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Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940s

Nina Silber, the author of This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America is interviewed by Gerry  Prokopowicz for this podcast from…

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Part 11: I Am Still Finding More Free Books on the Civil War and Reconstruction!

I have found yet another bunch of other free books. As my regular readers know, Project Muse is making hundreds of Civil War and Reconstruction…

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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson published by Scribner (2020). Hardcover…

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Part 9: University of Tennessee Offers Its Civil War and Reconstruction Books Free Online

The University of Tennessee Press has joined a dozen other scholarly presses to make its Civil War and Reconstruction books free on Project Muse during…

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