Author: Patrick Young
Refuting the Lost Cause Argument of Alexander Stephens: What About the Slavery?
Alexander Stephens was the Confederate Vice President who said that slavery was the “Cornerstone” of the Confederacy. After the Confederacy was defeated and slavery was…
Montgomery, Alabama’s Confederate Memory and Black Erasure
Kyle Whitmire of the Birmingham News is writing a series called “State of Denial” which looks at how Alabama tells its history, valorizing the Confederate…
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…
Facebook Civil War History & Me
Just a reminder, while I write about modern subjects elsewhere, when I post on a history facebook group I follow the rules of the group…
What Were the Top Three Bible Verses in the North and the South During the Civil War?
In James Byrd’s new book Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood from Oxford University Press he presents data from newspapers, sermons, books and other sources…
South Carolina Lady on the Capture of President Jefferson Davis by “Fiends”
On May 10, 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured near Irwinville, Georgia while trying to escape pursuing Union forces. Confederate partisan Emma Holmes of…
Margaret Renkl in the NY Times on the Removal of the Ugliest Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue
Margaret Renkl, the NY Times Contributing Writer focusing on the American South, writes today of visiting the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Nashville and…
Studying the Origins of the Civil War With South Carolina’s School Kids Circa 1918
I want to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the lead-up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era by reading the…
Report Says Reconstruction History Classes Need to Center Black Communities Redefining Freedom & Joy
One of the more interesting recommendations of the Zinn Education Project report on the teaching of Reconstruction is that teachers should “Foreground the meaning of…
Virginia Anti-CRT Bill Invents Debate Between Lincoln and (Frederick) Douglass!
We all know about the WAR ON CRT being waged by Fox News and its courageous champions in legislatures throughout certain parts of the USA….