Category: Memory of Reconstruction
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…
Around the Web July 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Civil War social media “exploded” (in the words of one participant) at the start of June over a book review on the Emerging Civil War…
Watch Video on How “Slave Burial Grounds” Are Rediscovered in Louisiana
The New York Times has a fascinating ten minute video on how 150 year old maps and modern satellite imagery are being used to find…
Civil War Institute Mapping Confederate Statues Throughout the South
The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College has announced a new project called State of the Confederacy. According to the Civil War Institute: This is…
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith published by Little Brown (2021). Clint Smith’s…
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