Category: Memory of Reconstruction

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America Edited by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney published by University of Georgia Press (2021)….

After the Civil War, Americans were sold ways of “experiencing” the war vicariously. Some of the more popular forms included stereoscope  photographs which provided a…

David Blight, one of America’s foremost historians and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Frederick Douglass, has an article in The Atlantic responding to the coordinated…

Here is the recording from the Schomburg Center of Henry Louis Gates and Eric Foner discussing W.E.B. DuBois book Black Reconstruction. The discussion starts about…

Here is the video recorded today. The discussion starts around ten minutes in: From the announcement: About this event VIRTUAL Reconstruction was for Du Bois…

Wilmington, N.C. unveiled its new sculpture group dedicated to the members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) who helped liberate the city in 1865….

There have long been claims that Sylvester Magee was the last American slave to die. Magee was used by a white supremacist to make the…

Here is some of the best of Civil War and Reconstruction social media from the last month. One disappointment last month was the continued silence…

Allison Keyes, a well-known former NPR correspondent, has an interesting article in Smithsonian Magazine of the new Reconstruction Era exhibit “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction…

The New York Times gave major story coverage to the Saturday unveiling of the new United States Colored Troops statue in Franklin, Tn. According to…