Category: African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction
A Black Man Tells Congress What African Americans Faced in the South During Reconstruction: Henry Adams
During Reconstruction, African Americans formed committees to record the violation of human rights by various white supremacist organizations like the Knights of the White Camelia…
Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is a new addition to the commemoration of the Civil…
“40 Acres & A Lie” Podcast On The Taking Away Of Land Distributed to Free African Americans Episode 1
“40 Acres & A Lie” is podcast from NPR on Sherman’s order giving land to freedmen on the Sea Islands in 1865. This is a…
Camp Nelson National Monument Kentucky Where Colored Troops Trained and Their Families Were Expelled
Last month I posted pictures of a whole lot of Civil War and Reconstruction sites from a Confederate cemetery in Columbus, Ohio, to General Grant’s…
Manisha Sinha presents “A New History of Abolition and Emancipation” on Friday June 19 at 7 p.m. at Cazenovia
Manisha Sinha, an Indian-born American historian and author, will present “A New History of Abolition and Emancipation” on Friday, June 19, at 7 p.m., at…
The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP by Tim Galsworthy
The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP by Tim Galsworthy published by the University of South Carolina…
Most Popular Book at NY City’s Public Libraries? “James” The Story of an Escaped Slave Who Joins the USCT
Every year New York City’s three library systems tally up what books were borrowed the most times in the past year. This year was James…
National Museum of African History and Culture D.C.
I first went to the Smithsonian back when I was in eighth grade and about to graduate from my elementary school. I loved going there,…
Colored Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg Texas
Fredericksburg, Texas is one of the highlights of the Texas Hill County. It is about an hour west of Austin. The city was founded in…
Tom Watson Brown Award for Best Civil War Book Goes to “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War”
The Society of Civil War Historians announced that Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is the recipient of the 2025 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. Dr. Fields-Black…