Author: Patrick Young
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R Egerton
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R Egerton published by Basic Books (2016) 450pp. $32.00 Hardcover $20.99…
Historian Describes How She Will Join Civil War Day of Action
The Journal of the Civil War Era is organizing a national day of action for historians at historic sites around the country on September 26…
Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon
Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General by David Dixon published by University of Tennessee Press (2020) $40.00 Hardcover. Author David…
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga by Eric J. Wittenberg
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga by Eric J. Wittenberg published by Savas Beattie (2018) Hardcover $29.95 Kindle $9.99…
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) $28.00 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle. Edward…
The White League Monument at Liberty Place in New Orleans
On September 13, 1891 the New Orleans newspapers announced that the following day there was to be a celebration on Canal Street on the anniversary…
The Battle of Liberty Place: White League Uprising Sept. 14, 1874
On September 12, 1874, a Saturday, posters began going up in New Orleans calling for the white people of the city to assemble at the…
How Did American History Textbooks Discuss Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction?
Donald Yacovone, an associate at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard, is working on a new book about how American…
The White League Arms for Battle as Its Coup Draws Near
In September 1874 the City of New Orleans and nearby parishes saw the signs of an approaching military conflict. Street battles would not begin until…
White League Makes an “earnest effort to re-establish a white man’s government” 1874
The Louisiana White league was nothing if not earnest in its effort to “re-establish a white man’s government” in Louisiana in 1874. Mixing the tools…