Category: African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction
Article in Jacobin on the Memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Robert Greene II, a PhD student at the University of South Carolina, has a brief article in Jacobin on the memory of the Civil War…
Book Review: Searching for Black Confederates by Kevin Levin
Newly Published Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin published by University of North Carolina Press (2019) Hardcover…
Resource-After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas
I recently learned about this free on-line resource After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas. You can access it here. This…
Prelude to a Reconstruction Riot: Irish and Blacks in Memphis in 1866
Immigrants lived in much of the United States at the start of the Civil War, but their numbers were not evenly distributed. Roughly 90% of…
Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Concise Lincoln Library) by Christian G. Samito
Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Concise Lincoln Library) by Christian G. Samito published by Southern Illinois University Press 188 pages (2015) Hardcover $24.93 Kindle $14.72. Lincoln…
National Park Service Handbook on Reconstruction
The National Park Service has a handbook out on the Reconstruction Era. Here is a link to it. It is similar to the familiar NPS…
Educational Reconstruction African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 by Hilary Green
Educational Reconstruction African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 by Hilary Green published by Fordham University Press (2016) 272 pages, Paperback $35.00, Kindle $22.99.…
Look What Just Dropped: Harriet Tubman BioPic Trailer Out!
The trailer just dropped for the new film Harriet about the life of abolitionist, Union spy, and African American civil rights leader Harriet Tubman. The…
The Black Republican Party in Georgia Organized in May 1867 by African Americans
While the influential white supremacist historian of Reconstruction William Dunning often presented African Americans in the South as the ignorant tools of Northern whites, in…
Rhiannon Giddens’s Song Offers Dialogue Between Slave Owner and Freedwoman at Moment of Emancipation
Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops has a new solo album out called Freedom Highway. The song “Julie” presents a dialogue between a slave and…