Author: Patrick Young
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…
Manassas Battlefield Confederate Park & Historical Vindication of the Confederacy
At its 1926 Convention, the Sons of Confederate Veterans spent a lot of time on a discussion of an internal dispute over its effort to…
Opposing Stone Mountain’s Confederate Memorialization & Lee’s Shrine in 1926
In the 1920s, Confederate groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans were pushing forward schemes to memorialize the…
Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Grandson Helped Run the Revived Klan and Klan Kollege
We know that sons often went into the same occupations as their fathers and grandfathers back in the day, but they also could see running…
When Longstreet Objected to Amnesty Offer for Confederate Soldiers January 1864
Here is an unusual correspondence between Union General J.G. Foster and Confederate General James Longstreet. In December, 1863 Abraham Lincoln had offered an amnesty to,…
Around the Web February 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This has been a strong month for history blogging. There are also good book reviews and podcasts as well. Blogs Nick Sacco writes about historian…