Category: Civil War
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.”…
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….