Author: Patrick Young
New Curriculum Available on “Lincoln and the Jews”
The Shapell Foundation was the force behind a Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibition at the New York Historical Society on Lincoln’s interactions with the emerging Jewish…
Frederick Douglass Identifies the Cause of Death of Robert E. Lee in 1870
Frederick Douglass published the New National Era newspaper in Washington beginning in 1870. When Robert E. Lee died on October 12, 1870, his passing was…
When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War
On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…
An Irish Immigrant Supporter of Lincoln Writes to His Daughter that the 1876 Election Is a Fraud
Patrick Guiney was the colonel commanding the Irish 9th Massachusetts Regiment when he was badly wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness. He would suffer…
Podcast on the 1898 White Supremacist Coup that Took Control of Wilmington, N.C.
In 1898 the Redshirts, a White Supremacist paramilitary organization operating in the Carolinas, staged a coup in which they took over North Carolina’s second largest…
How to Manufacture a Faithless Elector: Oregon in the Election of 1876
Oregon was a young state in 1876 and its politics were unpredictable. With only three Electoral votes, it did not get much attention during the…
Around the Web November 2020: Best of the Blogs and Pods on The Civil War and Reconstruction
I was happy to see that the first installment of this continuing series highlighting the most interesting stuff I am seeing in the blogs was…
What Do Mississippi Students Learn About the Civil War and Reconstruction?
The Atlantic has a fascinating interview with Chuck Yarborough, a teacher who has been surveying high school students for years about what they learned about…
The Top Selling Civil War Era Books of 2020
According to Civil War Monitor the top selling books about the Civil War Era over the last year include some popular histories, a few scholarly…
1876 Winning the Election by Refusing to Certify the Vote & Throwing Out Results
The initial vote counts for three states were incredibly close in the days after theĀ November 7 Election of 1876. In South Carolina, Republican Rutherford…