Category: Memory of Reconstruction
Abolitionist Turner Ashby’s Mob Drove Out Subject of New Virginia Marker
In 1856, future Confederate hero Turner Ashby led a violent pro-slavery mob in an attack against John C. Underwood, of Clarke County, Virginia. Underwood was…
Virginia Approves New Historic Markers Highlighting Civil War & Reconstruction History
The Virginia Board of Historic Resources approved fourteen new highway historic markers at its quarterly meeting in December. The markers are expected to go up…
American Conservative Article In Dunning School Tradition Draws Criticism
A new article by Helen Andrews in The American Conservative, Reconstruction Revisionism, is garnering negative critiques from many other writers. Her article claims that interpreting…
Changes to Pa. Markers for Gettysburg Campaign & Chambersburg Burning Denounced as Woke
Pennsylvania’s Historical and Museum Commission has changed the signage marking Confederate troop movements in McConnellsburg, Fulton County. McConnellsburg is and hour’s drive west of Gettysburg,…
Civil War Confederate Generals Tobacco Trading Cards 1889 Edition
The Duke Tobacco Company published collectable cards of Union and Confederate generals and admirals during the late 1880s that it included in its cigarette packs….
New Monument Dedicated in Chattanooga to the United States Colored Troops
On Dec. 4 a new monument to the United States Colored Troops (USCT) was dedicated at Chattanooga National Cemetery. The 44th U.S.C.T. was recruited in…
Beaufort in South Carolina Announces New Program to Mark Reconstruction Era Sites
Beaufort, South Carolina will use $350,000 of Federal money for signage to mark sites connected to the county’s Reconstruction Era history. Beaufort is the home…
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America Edited by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney
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)….
In 1866 Milton Bradley Sold a “Home Theater” Where Americans Could Watch the Civil War Unfold Before Their Eyes
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 Responds to the Attack on the Teaching of History
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…
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