Category: Memory of Reconstruction
For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek
For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly Mezurek published by Kent State University Press (2016). $37.95 Hardcover, $18.49 Kindle For Their…
Southern Historical Society Holds First Meeting May 1869 for “history of the war from a Southern stand-point”
The first meeting of what would become a prime defender of the justice of the Confederate cause was held in May, 1869 in New Orleans….
Book Review: Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris
Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harris published by LSU Press (2014) Hardcover $42.50 Kindle $26.49. …
University of South Carolina Honored Its First Black Professor (1873) With a Statue
Richard T. Greener holds two academic “firsts.” He was the first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870) and he was the first black professor…
Monument to United States Colored Troops Erected in Ohio
The number of monuments dedicated to United States Colored Troops (USCT) grew by one this week when a new monument was erected in Ferncliff Cemetery…
Early Reviews Praise New “Grant” Series
The reviews are beginning to come in on the new bio-docudrama “Grant” on the History Channel. The Wall Street Journal gave the miniseries a favorable…
General Grant in Manhattan: Photo Tour of Grant’s Tomb
Grant’s Tomb July 15, 2018 Michele and I headed to Manhattan a while ago to visit the General Grant National Memorial, better known as…
Ulysses S. Grant in Brooklyn: The Great Statue No One Knows About
Major General Ulysses S. Grant is remembered at several locations in New York City. Grant’s Tomb is the most famous memorial, but the often ignored…
Book Review: The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, a Deeply Flawed Classic
The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren published by Bison Books, 109 pages (1960, reissued 1998). $14.95 Paperback, $11.14 Kindle. The question you…
Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940s
Nina Silber, the author of This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America is interviewed by Gerry Prokopowicz for this podcast from…
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