Author: Patrick Young
Col. Fremont Not A Roman Catholic-The Religious Divide in the 1856 Election
John C. Fremont was a national hero in the 1840s after he led exploratory expeditions in the West. Dubbed “The Pathfinder of the West,” he…
New York Times Reviews The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine
This week, the New York Times reviewed The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine from W.W….
New Short Film on the Lives of Enslaved Couple’s Gender Change to Flee to Freedom
Ellen and William Craft ran away from slavery in plain sight. Ellen, who was light skinned, disguised herself as a sickly white man. Her husband…
Pres. Trump and Gen. Milley Argue Over Army Bases With Confederate Names
In their new book on the last year of the Trump presidency, reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonig relate the story of a dispute between…
Two Brothers Separated By Civil War in Maryland Lie Next to Each Other in Brooklyn
Michele and I decided to visit Civil War-related graves and monuments at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn to commemorate Memorial Day back in 2018. We stopped…
The Journal of Freedom: A Newspaper for the Black Community of Raleigh, N.C.
At the end of the Civil War there were a number of attempts to establish newspapers for Black communities in the South. Most of the…
Died at Elmira: Southern Newspapers Report on the Prison Toll
In the last months of the Civil War, while Northern newspapers were reporting on alleged atrocities committed by Confederates at Andersonville, Southern newspapers were relatively…
In 1865 Northern Newspapers Were Filled With Atrocity Stories from Andersonville Prison
In the months after Robert E. Lee’s surrender, three factors increased Northern determination to Reconstruct the South. The first was Lincoln’s Good Friday assassination. Coming…
U.S. Failed in Counterterrorism Operations After the Civil War
Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a scholar of counterterrorism studies at the Brookings Institution. He has an…
James W. Loewen, “Author of Lies My Teacher Told Me,” Passes Away
James W. Loewen, a well-known sociologist, has died. His 1995 book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a…