Author: Patrick Young
Around the Web June 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Note: You can now access my own Civil War/Reconstruction podcasts here. New Website A new website that looks at Civil War naval forces got started…
Book Review: Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War
Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War edited by Carol A. Shively is a colorful and interesting introduction to the participation of Asian immigrants…
Why Studying Reconstruction Helps Us Understand the Civil War: Civil War Reconstruction Podcast #2
This week I am releasing Episode 2 of the Civil War Reconstruction Podcast. This episode looks at why students of the Civil War will understand…
List of U.S. Grant Bicentennial Events In April, May, and June
I have been posting about the different Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial events recently and decided to create a master list of those I have publicized….
Stonewall’s Presbyterian Theologian Robert Dabney on the Effort to Welcome Black Ministers During Reconstruction
Robert Lewis Dabney was a noted Southern Presbyterian who served as both a minister of that faith and a professor of systematic theology. Before the…
Podcast on How Former Slaves Incorporated Into Cherokee Nation by Reconstruction Treaty Were Thrown Out and Now Are Back In
The Atlantic Magazine podcast The Experiment has a fascinating episode this month that looks at the status of African Americans descended from those held as…
Around the Web April 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
March was a most unusual month for me. I spent the last third of it hospitalized at the NYU hosital in Mineola, on Long Island….
About that Meme Showing a Charge by a “Black Confederate Regiment”
A new meme is making the rounds supposedly showing a charge by a unit of “Black Confederates.” The meme notes that on March 13, 1865…
Around the Web March 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Blogs Hulk Lawyer has been a sensation over the last month. He “is” an invented “Black Confederate” who debuted at a Board of Education meetings….
The Pat Cleburne Emancipation Proposal Tells Us a Lot About the Cause He Served Civil War Reconstruction Podcast
Pat Cleburne was a hard-fighting Irish immigrant who rose to the rank of Major General in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. In 1864 he shocked…