Category: Civil War
NY Times Publishes “Stories from Slavery” Submitted by Readers
The 1619 Project of the New York Times has a new installment today. In response to the series, African American families have been sending in…
Kevin Levin Speaks at National Archives About the Black Confederate Myth
My review of Kevin Levin’s new book Searching for Black Confederates was my second most popular article over the last month. Yesterday, the historian spoke…
Podcast: Francis Lieber, German Immigrant, Develops Laws of War During Civil War & Reconstruction
Here is an interesting discussion about Francis Lieber, the German immigrant law professor who developed the laws of war during the Civil War and Reconstruction….
Confederate General Wade Hampton Wrote that Civil War Was Over Secession & Slavery
Wade Hampston was one of the wealthiest men in the South before the Civil War. He served the Confederacy as a top cavalry commander. After…
Atlantic Magazine Reporter on His Three Month Journey Through the Post-War South 1865
The February 1866 Atlantic Magazine published this report of a three month trip by journalist Sidney Andrews through the post-war South. Andrews described the extent…
John B. Gordon to Black Voters “We opposed your freedom…because we had bought you” Sept. 1868
Former Confederate General John B. Gordon “reached out” to Black voters during the 1868 campaign to assure them that he and other whites had opposed…
“Who wrote women out of Civil War history?” An Essay by Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple has an interesting essay in The New Republic on why historians long ignored the roles of women in the American Civil War. As…
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…
Historian James Oakes Writes that Class War Created the Coalition that Won the Civil War
Historian James Oakes reviews ARMIES OF DELIVERANCE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR By Elizabeth R. Varon in this week’s The Nation Magazine. The…
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