Category: Memory of Reconstruction
Historian David Blight On the Threat To History
David Blight is one of the most respected academic historians in the United States. A professor at Yale, he has written seven books, including the…
NY Times Reports on Historical Plaques Under Review for Removal at National Park Sites
This article on the potential removal of historical and other signage at the National Parks appeared in todays New York Times. Here are substantial excerpts:…
Civil War Institute on Doing Civil War History in Public
The Civil War Institute had its 2025 conference in Gettysburg last weekend. One of the panel discussion looked at how National Park Rangers, podcasters, and…
Juneteenth Monument Texas African American History Memorial
While the official name of this monument is the Texas African American History Memorial, it is popularly known as the Juneteenth Monument. Texas’s Capitol has…
Trump to Rename Military Bases Whose Names Were Stripped Because They Were Names After Confederates
A little over four years ago, military bases named after Confederate officers were required by law to drop those names. In December 2020 the Senate…
Federal Government Stops Funding “National History Day” Just Nine Weeks Before It Is To Take Place
The president has stopped funding for National History Day just nine weeks before the event takes place. National History Day had already gotten contracts for…
National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad (and it ain’t good)
The new administration has made a lot of changes in how the National Park Service (NPS), the military, and other agencies present American history. Today’s…
National Museum of African American History & Culture
I was going to roll-out this article in May, but because of the president’s unparalleled attack on the National Museum African American History and Culture…
David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian
David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews the Author of a New Book on Civil War Video Games
Gerry Prokopowicz discusses the new book Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games with its editor Patrick Lewis. The book looks back…