Category: Civil War
NY Times Reviews New Book on John and Jessie Fremont by Steve Inskeep
The New York Times has a review of the new book on the Fremont marriage. John Frémont was the Pathfinder of the West and his…
Teaching the Civil War Using the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
The blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era is called Muster and it often has interesting posts from scholars of the Civil War…
It Appears that Kevin Levin is Setting the Agenda for the Sons of Confederate Veterans Sending them Searching for Black Confederates
Question: Why did the Confederacy lose the war? Answer: Too many flag bearers, too few muskets. Historian Kevin Levin appears to be setting the agenda…
Podcast Interview of Kevin M. Levin Author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth”
Kevin M. Levin, author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth,” was recently interviewed on Civil War Talk Radio by host…
Old “White House of the Confederacy” Hosts New Exhibit on “The Lost Cause”
The Richmond mansion that was Jefferson Davis’s residence when he was President of the Confederacy was a sacred shrine after the war to the “Lost…
Andrew Johnson Breaks With His Generals: Grant and Sherman on Guard January 1868
In December 1867, President Andrew Johnson sent a message to Congress explaining his reasons for suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in apparent defiance of…
Kevin Levin’s “Searching for Black Confederates” Named a Scholar’s Choice for Favorite History Book of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine
Yesterday I posted the Smithsonian Magazine’s picks for the best books of 2019. Today I am posting the Civil War/Reconstruction Era books named in the…
Historian Sean Wilentz: The End of Slavery Was Anything But Inevitable
Historian Sean Wilentz has an interesting article in the New York Review of Books on how surprising the abolition of slavery was to most Americans…
Wall Street Journal Reviews “Hymns of the Republic,” New Book on the Last Year of the Civil War
The Wall Street Journal has a review by Allen Guelzo of a new book on the last year of the Civil War, HYMNS OF THE…
New Yorker Says that New Harriet Tubman Film Is a “Stunning Achievement”
The New Yorker gave the new Civil War/Reconstruction Era film “Harriet” an enthusiastic review. In fact, it calls the Harriet Tubman biopic a “stunning achievement.”…
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