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Memory Wars Podcast Will Examine How the U.S. and Germany Deal With Memory of Slavery and Holocaust

Axios reports that a new five-part podcast launched today that looks at how Germany had to confront its history of human rights abuse and genocide…

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Why Studying Reconstruction Helps Us Understand the Civil War: Civil War Reconstruction Podcast #2

This week I am releasing Episode 2 of the Civil War Reconstruction Podcast. This episode looks at why students of the Civil War will understand…

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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…

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The Pat Cleburne Emancipation Proposal Tells Us a Lot About the Cause He Served Civil War Reconstruction Podcast

Pat Cleburne was a hard-fighting Irish immigrant who rose to the rank of Major General in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. In 1864 he shocked…

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Podcast: James Buchanan’s Presidency

Five years ago the Washington Post put out a podcast series on the American presidents. As I work my way through the Civil War and…

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Around the Web October 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

This is what I liked best last month. Blogs Fredericksburg National Park Historian John Hennessy retired in September and he got a lot of tributes…

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1865 Podcast Episode 2 & 3 Dramatizes the Days After the Lincoln Assassination

Episode 2 of the dramatic series 1865 covers the days after the Lincoln Assassination. It has some poorly sourced claims that Andrew Johnson and John…

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1865 Podcast Dramatizes Events Following Lincoln Assassination

I have seen the podcast 1865 described as a “new” series on the months after the Lincoln assassination. In fact, the podcast is in its…

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NY Times Book Review Podcast Interview With Clint Smith on “How the Word Was Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery”

The first half hour of the New York Times Book Review podcasts is devoted to Clint Smith’s new book on how historic sites interpret slavery,…

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Around the Web April 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

We are back for a look at the Best of the Web over the last month. Zooms continued strong, and are likely to endure even…

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