Category: Memory of Reconstruction
David Blight: Don’t Tear Down the Lincoln Statue in Washington
David Blight has an op ed in the Washington Post contra calls to remove the statue of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator in D.C. Here…
Family of KKK Leader General John B. Gordon Asks that His Statue Be Removed in Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the family of Ku Klux Klan leader and Confederate general John B. Gordon be removed from the grounds of…
New Virginia Highway History Markers Will Include Reconstruction Sites
Virginia will soon be erecting new roadside history markers for sites involving the state’s African American people. You can read the full list here. Here…
Confederate Monument Dedications in NC Often Were Explicitly Racist
In a 2017 newspaper article, scholar Brian Fennessy wrote that in researching Confederate monument dedication speeches in North Carolina “I searched for dedication speeches that…
NY Times Podcast on the History and Meaning of Juneteenth
The New York Times has an interesting interview with Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, on…
“Gone With the Wind” Is a Confederate Monument Says Historian Nina Silber
Historian Nina Silber has an interesting article in today’s Washington Post titled ‘Gone With the Wind’ is also a Confederate monument, but on film instead…
How Did American History Textbooks Remember the Ku Klux Klan?
The recent book Remembering Reconstruction has an essay titled “The Cultural Work of the Ku-Klux Klan in US History Textbooks, 1883–2015” by Elaine Parsons. The…
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. …
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