Author: Patrick Young
Black Celebration Day of New Won Citizenship Turns to Bloody Night in Norfolk in April, 1866
This is the story of a night of horror that began as celebration of the recognition of the citizenship of Black people. The death toll…
New Yorker: Should Dred Scott Decision Be Taught in Law School?
The New Yorker has an essay on the trend in some law schools to no longer have students read the entire Dred Scott Decision in…
David Reynolds Wins Lincoln Prize for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
From the sponsors of the Lincoln Prize: Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has named David S. Reynolds, author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln…
Francis Parkman Prize Goes to New Work on Nat Turner
The prestigious Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually by the Society of American Historians to a nonfiction work of history on an American theme published…
New Reconstruction Trail Opened in Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina was the capital when the state had its first Black-majority legislature. From 1865 to 1876 it was the center of a civil…
NY Times Reviews How the Word Was Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
The Sunday New York Times reviews HOW THE WORD IS PASSED: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith. Here are…
Book Roundup of Some of the Best Reconstruction and Race Books of the Pandemic Year
Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just…
American Legion Suspends Post that Cut-Off Veteran’s Mic at Memorial Day Ceremony
The decision to cut-off the mic of retired Lt. Col. Bernard Kemter at a Memorial Day commemoration in Hudson, Ohio when he described an 1865…
NY Times Reviews New Michael Burlingame Book on the Lincoln Marriage
Abe Lincoln and Mary Todd were the sort of power couple we now recognize in FDR and Eleanor or Bill and Hil. No major biography…
Erasing History: Vet’s Mic Turned Off When He Speaks About the Creation of Memorial Day at the End of the Civil War
There have been many attempts over the years to suppress aspects of the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The role of African Americans…