Category: Native Americans
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country Wins A.M. Pate Award for Trans-Mississippi Civil War History
The 2022 A.M. Pate Award for the best book on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi has been awarded to Fay Yarbrough for her book…
NPS book on Native Americans During the Civil War Now Free to Read OnLine
The National Park Service book American Indians and the Civil War is now available to read for free online. You can access the more than…
Podcast on How Former Slaves Incorporated Into Cherokee Nation by Reconstruction Treaty Were Thrown Out and Now Are Back In
The Atlantic Magazine podcast The Experiment has a fascinating episode this month that looks at the status of African Americans descended from those held as…
Video Heather Cox Richardson on Civil War & Reconstruction in the West
Here is a brand new video from Heather Cox Richardson on the Civil War and early Reconstruction on Native Americans on the Plains and Southwest….
Historian Megan Kate Nelson Questions “Union” Statues in the Southwest
Historian Megan Kate Nelson has a new article in the Atlantic on the ambiguous “Union” statues in the Southwest that now face removal. According to…
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson published by Scribner (2020). Hardcover…
Reconstruction of Native Americans After the Civil War
Alexandra Stern is a doctoral candidate in American History at Stanford University doing research on Native Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is…
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