Category: Civil War

The New York Times has a review of a new novel that tells the story of a real unit in the United States Colored Troops….

At its 1926 Convention, the Sons of Confederate Veterans spent a lot of time on a discussion of an internal dispute over its effort to…

Here is an unusual correspondence between Union General J.G. Foster and Confederate General James Longstreet. In December, 1863 Abraham Lincoln had offered an amnesty to,…

Alexander Stephens was the Confederate Vice President who said that slavery was the “Cornerstone” of the Confederacy. After the Confederacy was defeated and slavery was…

From the National Parks Service: The public is invited to join the National Park Service and Longwood University at the annual free Civil War Seminar…

Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…

Just a reminder, while I write about modern subjects elsewhere, when I post on a history facebook group I follow the rules of the group…

On May 10, 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured near Irwinville, Georgia while trying to escape pursuing Union forces. Confederate partisan Emma Holmes of…

I want to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the lead-up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era by reading the…

We all know about the WAR ON CRT being waged by Fox News and its courageous champions in legislatures throughout certain parts of the USA….