Author: Patrick Young

I was unaware of this until I read about it in an essay by by Christopher Barr in Crossing the Deadlines. Here are the facts…

We don’t often get the full scope of reasons for opposing the recruitment of Black soldiers. This is the view from the Journal of Commerce…

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight published by Simon & Schuster 913 pages (2018) $37.50 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle ​ David Blight has…

Here is a wide-ranging discussion of the interplay of Confederate Heritage and Black History in Tension. Here is a description of the panel: Published on…

Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction by Carl H. Moneyhon published by Texas A&M Press (2004) 248 pages. Kindle $14.68, Paperback $19.95.​ Carl…

We sometimes hear it said that slavery in the South would have died out even without the Civil War. If you read Southern newspapers right…

Historian Kevin Levin has an article on “What the Civil War Can Teach Us About 9/11 Remembrance” on The Atlantic Magazine’s website today. Living 30…

Hundreds of Southern towns and cities erected Confederate statues in the decades after the Civil War. Almost no statues or monuments marked the military service…

Eric Foner’s new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution is due out in a week. The book by…

The New York Times has an interesting review of the new book LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman…