Author: Patrick Young
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…