Category: Memory of Reconstruction
NY Times Documents and Photographs the Places Black People Were Sold in the United States
The New York Times has an important article this weekend by SUNY Binghamton history professor Anne C. Bailey documenting the places where slaves were sold in…
Video: Historian Elizabeth Varon Discusses the Johnson Impeachment
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia hosted a discussion of the Johnson Impeachment back in 2001. Elizabeth Varon is the historian who held…
Teaching the Civil War Using the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
The blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era is called Muster and it often has interesting posts from scholars of the Civil War…
Preserving the Places Where African American History Happened
The New Yorker has a fascinating article on the effort to preserve historic sites where African Americans lived, worked, and struggled for freedom. For decades…
Video: Southern Historical Society Panel on Teaching Reconstruction at the College Level
Here is an interesting panel presentation given two months ago at the Southern Historical Association about ways to teach Reconstruction at the undergraduate level. There…
New Pavilion to Victims of Lynching from 1865 to 1877 Opened in Montgomery, Ala.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EIJ) has attracted a lot of attention over the last several years for its marking of lynching sites throughout the United…
Nick Sacco Discusses Using Cartoons to Explore Reconstruction History
Our friend Nick Sacco has an interesting article up today at the blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era. Nick says that American…
It Appears that Kevin Levin is Setting the Agenda for the Sons of Confederate Veterans Sending them Searching for Black Confederates
Question: Why did the Confederacy lose the war? Answer: Too many flag bearers, too few muskets. Historian Kevin Levin appears to be setting the agenda…
Museum of the Cape Fear to Hold “Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz Bowl”
North Carolina’s Museum of the Cape Fear has been hosting a “Civil War Quiz Bowl” for seventeen years, but last year it was renamed the…
Kate Masur & Greg Downs Named Co-Editors of Journal of the Civil War Era
The respected Journal of the Civil War Era has announced the appointment of new co-editors for the journal. The two, Greg Downs and Kate Masur…
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