Author: Patrick Young
Historians Urge School Districts to Teach the Reconstruction Era
180 historians have signed an open letter urging school districts to devote more time and resources to the teaching of the Reconstruction Era. The signers include…
Around the Web April 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
We are back for a look at the Best of the Web over the last month. Zooms continued strong, and are likely to endure even…
Reconstructing American Womanhood: War and Change in Women’s Lives
We sometimes mistakenly associate the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras with the “Ideals of Victorian Womanhood,” as though all women sought to nestle inside of…
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra published by Liveright 448 pages (2020). Long before the modern field of Civil War Memory…
New Book by Kate Masur on “America’s First Civil Rights Movement” Reviewed by NY Times
The new book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction by historian Kate Masur got an extremely favorable…
Around the Web March 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Our curated trip around the web is back for its March 2021 installment. Here are blog posts, social media accounts, podcasts, and Zooms that I…
Black History/Black Resistance
Reconstruction began while the Civil War was still raging. As Black refugees from slavery reached Union lines, they forced the United States government to reconstruct…
Two Hour Interview With Historian David Blight on Frederick Douglass
One of New York City’s most popular radio hosts, Alison Stewart, did a two hour interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight on the life…
How a Confederate Veteran Helped a Black Man Convicted of Killing a White Man
Allison Stewart interviews Ben Montgomery in an interesting segment on a Confederate veteran and a Black man teaming up against injustice in Kentucky. From the…
Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan Act Being Used to Sue Ex-President
I was planning on writing about the Ku Klux Klan Act, also known as “The Third Enforcement Act,” this year. Just as I was re-reading…