Author: Patrick Young
54th Massachusetts: “A Brave Black Regiment”
This is part of my series of scrapbooks on Black regiments that served in the Civil War. While they are each focused on a single…
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd published by LSU Press (2010) 289 pages 410,000 soldiers were held…
University of South Carolina Held Teacher Training on Reconstruction Era
For years, the University of South Carolina’s (UofSC) Center for Civil Rights History and Research held a three week training for teachers on Reconstruction in…
The Second Amendment & The Right to Kill Black People in Slavery and Reconstruction
Slate’s legal writer Dahlia Lithwick recently interviewed historian Carol Anderson, professor and chair of African American studies at Emory University, on her new book The…
When the Confederates Planned to Blow Up Libby Prison to Kill the Prisoners in the Event of a Raid
In February 1865 the Joint Select Committee of the Confederate Congress appointed to investigate the conditions and treatment of prisoners of war issued a report…
Christiansburg, Virginia to Install Panels on the Town’s Black History During Slavery and Reconstruction
The Montgomery Museum of Art & History in Christiansburg, Virginia and the Christiansburg Institute has approval to place three interpretive panels in the town square…
Around the Web August 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
The month on Civil War and Reconstruction social media started a little slow, maybe everyone was caught up with Fourth of July barbeques, but things…
A Future Leader of the Resistance to Reconstruction Advocates Confederate Enlistment of Black Soldiers
I have read a number of musings and proposals by Confederates to enlist Black men into the Confederate army. The most famous is General Pat…
South Carolina Plantation to Tell the Story of the African Americans Who Escaped From It
Historic Brattonsville in McConnells, S.C. is working on a new exhibit focusing on four people enslaved at the plantation at the center of the historic…
The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association
Chad Pearson, a professor of history at Collin College in Texas, has an article in Jacobin on the importance of the Ku Klux Klan to…