Category: Civil War
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
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…
Facebook Civil War History & Me
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…
South Carolina Lady on the Capture of President Jefferson Davis by “Fiends”
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…
Studying the Origins of the Civil War With South Carolina’s School Kids Circa 1918
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…
Virginia Anti-CRT Bill Invents Debate Between Lincoln and (Frederick) Douglass!
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….
Historians Discuss “Civil War” Video Games on Video Panel
Muster is the blog of the scholarly Journal of the Civil War Era. An article this month includes a video of younger historians discussing a…
Marker Erected Telling the Story of USCT at the Battle of Nashville
Before the December 2021 anniversary of the Union victory at the Battle of Nashville, a marker was erected near the site of Granbury’s Lunette telling…
2022 Is the 160th Anniversary of the 1862 Wilmington, N.C. Yellow Fever Outbreak
In 1862, Wilmington, North Carolina was hit with a Yellow Fever epidemic that caused half the city’s population to flee. While the disease outbreak seems…
June 1865 Ulysses S. Grant Worried that Confederates Fleeing to Mexico Posed Threat to U.S.
Following the complete defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, thousands of Confederate veterans, politicians, and their family members fled to Latin America. Most of these…
Podcast Examines How Civil War Is Remembered at Battlefields and in Monuments
Laura DeMarco discusses her new book “Lost Civil War: The Disappearing Legacy of America’s Greatest Conflict” and Karen Cox, professor at the University of North…
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