Author: Patrick Young
National Park Service Handbook on Reconstruction
The National Park Service has a handbook out on the Reconstruction Era. Here is a link to it. It is similar to the familiar NPS…
Educational Reconstruction African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 by Hilary Green
Educational Reconstruction African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 by Hilary Green published by Fordham University Press (2016) 272 pages, Paperback $35.00, Kindle $22.99.…
When Confederate Heritagers Rejected A.P. Hill’s Daughter as the “Daughter of the Confederacy”
Many of us know that Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis and pictured above, was given the title “The Daughter of the Confederacy” by many…
When a Ban on Chinese Immigration Was Proposed in 1867 Frederick Douglass Stood Up in Opposition
Americans’ fear of non-white, non-Christian immigrants began in 1848 with the arrival of the first ship full of Chinese in San Francisco Bay. The Chinese…
The Black Republican Party in Georgia Organized in May 1867 by African Americans
While the influential white supremacist historian of Reconstruction William Dunning often presented African Americans in the South as the ignorant tools of Northern whites, in…
Historian James Oakes Writes that Class War Created the Coalition that Won the Civil War
Historian James Oakes reviews ARMIES OF DELIVERANCE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR By Elizabeth R. Varon in this week’s The Nation Magazine. The…
Rhiannon Giddens’s Song Offers Dialogue Between Slave Owner and Freedwoman at Moment of Emancipation
Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops has a new solo album out called Freedom Highway. The song “Julie” presents a dialogue between a slave and…
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant by Charles W. Calhoun
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (American Presidency Series) by Charles W. Calhoun published by the University Press of Kansas (2017) 39.95 Hardcover 24.88 Kindle. The…
Would Reconstruction Have Been Different if Lincoln Had Lived? Historians Weigh In
The scholarly journal Civil War History had a Historians Forum on Reconstruction in the September 2015 issue. I want to point to one of the…
Noticing Diversity in Reconstruction NYC “…it’s Ireland and Italy, Jerusalem and Germany, Chinese and Africans and a paradise for rats”
McNally’s Row of Flats was a popular song of 1882 describing the emerging diversity of the Five Points in New York City. Set in a…