Author: Patrick Young
Smithsonian Scholars Favorite Books of 2021-19th Century Picks
Smithsonian Magazine publishes a list of new books every year that the scholars at the Smithsonian have picked as their favorites. These are individual choices…
David Blight Responds to the Attack on the Teaching of History
David Blight, one of America’s foremost historians and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Frederick Douglass, has an article in The Atlantic responding to the coordinated…
More Than a Thousand Attend Unveiling of New Statue to Reconstruction Texas Senator
A new statue of Reconstruction legislator Matthew Gaines was unveiled at Texas A&M University on Saturday. Gaines had been enslaved at birth and was twenty…
“All That She Carried” Wins National Book Award for Nonfiction
Tiya Miles won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.” According to…
Washington Post Review of New 1619 Project Book Asks What “1619” Really Means
Carlos Lozada reviews the new 1619 Project book in today’s Washington Post. The review is decidedly mixed, incorporating criticism, praise, and confusion in one review!…
Recording of Discussion by Eric Foner & Henry Louis Gates on DuBois “Black Reconstruction”
Here is the recording from the Schomburg Center of Henry Louis Gates and Eric Foner discussing W.E.B. DuBois book Black Reconstruction. The discussion starts about…
Free Virtual Discussion of DuBois “Black Reconstruction” by Eric Foner & Henry Louis Gates
Here is the video recorded today. The discussion starts around ten minutes in: From the announcement: About this event VIRTUAL Reconstruction was for Du Bois…
Texas A&M Unveiling Statue of Black Reconstruction Sen. Matthew Gaines Whose Work Helped Found the School
Students at Texas A&M began the effort to create a memorial to State Senator Matthew Gaines all the way back in 1998. Gaines was enslaved…
Jefferson Davis and the Constitutional Right to Own Slaves
Many of us learned in school to revere the Constitution as a “Charter of Freedom,” a Magna Carta of rights for the ordinary citizen. More…
First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling
First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the North’s First Civil War Hero by Meg Groeling published by Savas Beatie (2021) Elmer Ellsworth is…