Category: Memory of Reconstruction
Video: David Blight at CUNY Conference on Abolition “The Anti-Slavery Bulwark”
The City University of New York CUNY Grad Center conference on Abolition and the Civil War took place in 2014. Videos of the conference have…
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard
The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates by Edward Pollard (1866). Available Free Here. The Lost Cause by Edward Pollard is a…
NY Times Interviews Edward Achorn, the Author of “Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.”
In his new book Every Drop of Blood Edward Achorn describes the 24 hours of Lincoln’s Second Inauguration. We all remember Lincoln address that day,…
Washington Post: If Johnson Was Impeached and Removed, Jeff Davis Might Have Been Executed
The Washington Post has an article speculating that if Andrew Johnson had been removed from office by the Senate at the conclusion of his impeachment…
When the Daughters of the Confederacy Wanted a Statue Dedicated to “Loyal Mammies”
The United Daughters of the Confederacy were one of the most effective women’s organizations in the South in the early 20th Century. They fostered the…
New Map and Guide to New York City Abolitionist Sites
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has put together a useful guide to sites in the city associated with the Abolitionist Movement. Maps and…
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…