Category: Memory of Reconstruction
Atlantic Magazine Says “Six Degrees of Song of the South” One of the Best Podcasts of the Year
The Atlantic Magazine recently named Six Degrees of Song of the South one of the best podcasts of the year. The series focuses on the…
Video of Charleston Emancipation Day Celebration
Charleston claims the oldest continuous public celebration of the January 1, 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Here is video of the New Year’s Eve…
Podcast Interview of Kevin M. Levin Author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth”
Kevin M. Levin, author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth,” was recently interviewed on Civil War Talk Radio by host…
Three Civil War/Reconstruction Era Films Make Smithsonian’s 10 Best History Movies of the Decade
Smithsonian Magazine just released its list of the ten best history movies of the 2010s and it includes three films about the Civil War and…
Thomas Nast Depicts the Emancipation of the Slaves in a Giant Cartoon
New Year’s Day is also the anniversary of Lincoln’s January 1, 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. To celebrate the signing, Tomas Nast sketched a…
Book Review: Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson published by Norton (2007). This book won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and…
Five Historians’ Joint Critique of New York Times “1619” Series on Slavery
One of the most talked about popular history initiatives of 2019 was the “1619” series on the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the “first…
Old “White House of the Confederacy” Hosts New Exhibit on “The Lost Cause”
The Richmond mansion that was Jefferson Davis’s residence when he was President of the Confederacy was a sacred shrine after the war to the “Lost…
The First Historical Marker Commemorating a Lynching in Missouri
The Equal Justice Inititative is installing community remembrance markers at the sites of places where African Americans were lynched. This is the first such marker…
Book Review: LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2019) $30.00 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle Learning…
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