Category: Memory of Reconstruction
New Florida Teacher Training Now Ignores Reconstruction Says News Report
Tampa’s News Channel 8 reports that the new curriculum trainings for Florida social studies teachers leaves out the Reconstruction Era. The trainings, organized by the…
Free African American Weeksville Community in Brooklyn Photo Tour
Weeksville was a free Black community established in Brooklyn before the Civil War. In the 1850s the community had 500 people living in it, about…
Kent Masterson Brown Wins Emerging Civil War Book Award for “Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command”.
Kent Masterson Brown has won the Emerging Civil War Book Award for his new volume Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command. According to the…
Civil War Topps Trading Cards from 1962 Depict the War’s Opening
I was looking at baseball card site today, and I came across this interesting piece on how the Topps Baseball Card company put out a…
Chris Mackowski of Emerging Civil War Honored by American Battlefield Trust
Chris Mackowski, a familiar name to Civil War history students, was honored by the American Battlefield Trust in July for his work with history teachers….
Virginia Gov. Youngkin on the Defensive After Advisor’s Pro-Confederate Statements
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin threw down once again in the “History Wars” that seem to have captured the popular right-wing imagination since the killing of…
Nine New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Network by National Park Service
Nine new sites have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network by the National Park Service (NPS). Here is the NPS description of…
Hamburg Massacre Commemorated This Weekend in South Carolina
The 1876 Hamburg Massacre of African Americans was long-ignored by South Carolina’s educators and museums who rewrote history to maintain White Supremacy. This weekend the…
Workshops That Teach New Florida History Standards Said to Distort Past
New standards for teaching civics in Florida have led to the establishment of three-day programs across the state to instruct social studies teachers in how…
Recovering From the Trauma of the Civil War: Mental Health
Dillon J. Carroll, history instructor at Butte Community College in California, is the author of the forthcoming book “Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Veterans of…
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