Author: Patrick Young
Historian Greg Downs on What Modern Democrats Can Learn from Reconstruction Republicans
In an interesting essay on TPM today, historian Greg Downs writes that the Republican Party’s willingness to embrace unorthodox methods during the Civil War and…
Historian David Blight on the Example of Lincoln and the Pandemic
Yale historian David Blight has an interesting article in The Atlantic this week on how emergencies teach us the importance of government. Blight writes: In…
Video: Anti-Slavery Politics in the Antebellum Era from CUNY Conference on Abolitionists
This is the third video in a series on the Abolition Movement that was held at CUNY back in 2014. This panel looked at the…
Video: The Abolitionists and the Political Crisis of the 1850s from CUNY Abolitionist Conference
The next video in the series from CUNY’s great conference on Abolitionism is filled with heavy hitters talking about the political crisis of the 1850s….
Part 8: Civil War & Reconstruction Books from Miscellaneous Publishers for Free
This is the final post I will make on Civil War and Reconstruction books offered for free during the Corona Crisis. These are e-books that…
Part 7: Free Civil War and Reconstruction e-books from UNC African American History & Wayne State University Press
You may have thought I could not find any more free books for you to download, but I have found yet more Civil War and…
Part 6: Free Civil War and Reconstruction e-books from Universities of Missouri, Arizona, Temple, Cornell and Texas Tech
Well, I have found yet more Civil War and Reconstruction books offered for free during the Corona Crisis. These are e-books that various university presses…
Part 5: Free OnLine Books from University of Georgia Press on Civil War & Reconstruction Eras
Here is my fifth selection of free e-books from scholarly presses on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. There are some great books in here…
Part 4: A Whole Passel of Books from Fordham on Reconstruction and the Civil War
As I keep digging I keep finding more and more free books being offered by scholarly presses on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. These…
Part 3: More Free Civil War and Reconstruction Books to Read This Time from Fordham University Press’s The North’s Civil War Series
Just as the University of North Carolina did, Fordham University has made two dozen of its Civil War and Reconstruction Era history books available for…