Category: Memory of Reconstruction
Watch Seth Meyers on Robert E. Lee and Afghanistan
Seth Meyers discusses the removal of the Lee Statue in Richmond and the former president’s claim that the U.S. would have won in Afghanistan had…
Thoughts on the Removal of the Lee Statue & the Role of Confederate “Heritage” Groups
Those horrified by the removal of Lee’s statue might want to take a look at the role of Confederate Heritage Defenders in promoting the current…
Pres. Trump and Gen. Milley Argue Over Army Bases With Confederate Names
In their new book on the last year of the Trump presidency, reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonig relate the story of a dispute between…
James W. Loewen, “Author of Lies My Teacher Told Me,” Passes Away
James W. Loewen, a well-known sociologist, has died. His 1995 book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a…
South Carolina Historical Preservation Law Obscures History of Reconstruction
Ehren Foley holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of South Carolina and is an editor at the University of South Carolina Press….
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd published by LSU Press (2010) 289 pages 410,000 soldiers were held…
University of South Carolina Held Teacher Training on Reconstruction Era
For years, the University of South Carolina’s (UofSC) Center for Civil Rights History and Research held a three week training for teachers on Reconstruction in…
Christiansburg, Virginia to Install Panels on the Town’s Black History During Slavery and Reconstruction
The Montgomery Museum of Art & History in Christiansburg, Virginia and the Christiansburg Institute has approval to place three interpretive panels in the town square…
Opponents of Reconstruction Used Tropes of White Victimization to Oppose Black Equality
Historian Lawrence Glickman has a fascinating article in The Atlantic on the ways modern opponents of civil rights use tropes common among the opponents of…
Do We Ignore Prisoners of War When We Study the Civil War?
I was rereading the September 2017 issue of Civil War history recently. It had a roundtable discussion by academic and public historians about Civil War…
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