Author: Patrick Young
Confederate Veteran Says that End “of Slavery Is…Abolition of Labor” in July 1865
Alcibiade DeBlanc was an officer in the Confederate army during the Civil War. At the end of the conflict he became a leading spokesman for…
Columbia University Report by Eric Foner Detailed Links to Slavery
Columbia University in New York issued a report in 2017 on its connections to slavery. Read about it in the New York Times. The report…
Columbia University Historians Abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction & BLM
Columbia University historians Christopher L. Brown, Eric Foner, Stephanie McCurry, and Bailey Yellen held a Zoom meeting this week to discuss the Black Lives Matter…
John Oliver Discusses How U.S. Schools Teach Slavery and Reconstruction
John Oliver has a funny/angry take on how children in the United States are taught the history of slavery, Emancipation, Reconstruction and White Supremacy. Adult…
University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy
University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy published by Oxford University Press…
Historian Caroline Janney Looks at Trump’s The Lost Cause in the WaPo
The Washington Post has an essay today by Caroline Janney about the Lost Cause and Donald Trump. Janney is a leading historian of the Civil…
John Lewis Crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge Named After a Klan Leader
Most of you know that John Lewis was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. You may have seen Lewis’s body carried across the…
Southern Newspaper Reflects on the Change in New Orleans Race Relations Caused by Union Occupation
Here is an interesting article on Union occupied/liberated New Orleans from a pro-Confederate newspaper in Texas. The article takes up nearly a full page in…
Podcast: Eric Foner on the “Fake History” of Reconstruction
Ideastream has a twelve minute interview with Eric Foner on Reconstruction which focuses on the damage done by the fake history of the period that…
Photo Tour of the Home of Jupiter Hammon-the First Published Black Writer in U.S.
Jupiter Hammon was the first black author to see his or her works published in what is now the United States. Hammon was born into…