Author: Patrick Young
General Frank Blair Warns That “Negro Suffrage” Leads to “Adulteration of Our Anglo-Saxon Race”
Frank Blair was a leading member of the prominent Blair Family. Before the war he was a Free-Soil Democrat. During the war he was a…
NY Times Article by Eric Foner on “The Lost Promise of Reconstruction”
The New York Times has an interesting article from historian Eric Foner on The Lost Promise of Reconstruction. From the article: Among the unanticipated consequences…
1619 Podcast: Slavery and the Birth of American Music
The 1619 project at the New York Times has another new podcast. This one looks at slavery and the birth of American music. This one…
Part 3: Why Academic Historians Should Thank Their Colleagues on Social Media and Why They Are Important for Democracy
This is my third blog post on historian Earl Hess’s article on the Internet and Civil War history that appeared this week in the journal…
Part 2: Academic Historians Zero in on What They Don’t Like About Using Social Media: Hint-He Lives in Boston
Yesterday I wrote about an article in the scholarly journal Civil War History by historian Earl Hess on “The Internet and Civil War Studies.” The…
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie (2012) $26.95 Hardcover, $16.96 Paper, $3.99 Kindle. I…
The Social Media Problem for Civil War Historians: They Don’t Like It & They Wish It Would Go Away
The scholarly journal Civil War History has a troubling article by historian Earl Hess on “The Internet and Civil War Studies.” The article relies on…
NY Times 1619 Podcast: The Economy Slavery Built
Episode 2 is up of the New York Times new podcast series on slavery. You can listen to it here.
Resisting Carpet-Baggery And Mongrel Reconstruction in Virginia July 1868
In July 1868 Virginia was considering ratification of a new Constitution in line with the requirements imposed for its Reconstruction as a state and for…
Some Southern Women Wanted to Change the Words to Confederate National Anthem “Dixie”
We sometimes hear Confederate Heritage groups claim that moving a monument or taking down a Confederate Battle Flag amounts to “changing history.” What they don’t…