Category: Religion
“Slave Bible” on Display in Netherlands: Rewritten to Eliminate Freedom as a Virtue
A Bible used by British missionaries preaching to enslaved people in the Americas is now on display in Utrecht in the Netherlands. The 1807 Bible…
How Religious Pamphlets Supported the Confederate Cause During the Civil War
Religion’s place in American life has become a rich subject of Civil War Era research in recent decades. Josh Waddell, a scholar at the University…
Black Church Tolson’s Chapel Near Burnside’s Bridge Designated National Historic Landmark
Tolson’s Chapel in Sharpsburg, Md. has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The church, established by African Americans in 1866, is near the road leading…
Stonewall’s Presbyterian Theologian Robert Dabney on the Effort to Welcome Black Ministers During Reconstruction
Robert Lewis Dabney was a noted Southern Presbyterian who served as both a minister of that faith and a professor of systematic theology. Before the…
What Were the Top Three Bible Verses in the North and the South During the Civil War?
In James Byrd’s new book Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood from Oxford University Press he presents data from newspapers, sermons, books and other sources…
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…
Fr. Ryan, “Poet Priest of the South,” Denounces “Richmond Irish Radical Republicans” Sept 1868
Fr. Abram Joseph Ryan was one of the most visible Catholic priests in the South. A firm Confederate, he served as an army chaplain. After…
Election of First African American to Serve in U.S. Senate to Be Commemorated in Mississippi
According to the Meridian Star: Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the historic election of Hiram Revels as…
The Black Republican Party in Georgia Organized in May 1867 by African Americans
While the influential white supremacist historian of Reconstruction William Dunning often presented African Americans in the South as the ignorant tools of Northern whites, in…
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