Category: Slavery
Washington Post: National Park Service Is Taking Down References to Slavery at Historic Sites
The Washington Post published an article this week reporting that leadership within the National Park Service (NPS) is ordering material referencing slavery at some NPS…
National Museum of African History and Culture D.C.
I first went to the Smithsonian back when I was in eighth grade and about to graduate from my elementary school. I loved going there,…
Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Advisor Says That Slave Trading Was Wrong But Not Slavery Part 3
This is the third article on Rev. Doug Wilson, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spiritual advisor. Rev. Wilson is the head of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical…
Juneteenth Monument Texas African American History Memorial
While the official name of this monument is the Texas African American History Memorial, it is popularly known as the Juneteenth Monument. Texas’s Capitol has…
Two Civil War Books Win Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and History
On May 5 the announcement came of Pulitzer Prizes. Two books largely dealing with the Civil War, won awards. The winner for Fiction was James…
Sherman’s March Helped Bring a Georgia Family Together
When Major General William Tecumseh Sherman began his March to the Sea on November 15, 1864, many Georgians greeted the Union armies as deliverers from…
DOGE Stops Funding of Whitney Plantation Which Tells the Story of Enslaved Blacks
The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana was founded in 1752. It contained dozens of enslaved African Americans until the Civil War broke out. In 2014…
Emerging Civil War Discussion of Slave Trading in the South During the Civil War
Emerging Civil War Podcasts includes a discussion of Chris Mackowski with Dr. Robert K. D. Colby on slave trading in the Civil War and his…
Civil War Talk Radio on Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of Americas Largest Emancipation
Gerry at Civil War Talk Radio has a thought provoking with Bennett Parten, the author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Shermans March and the Story of…
Percival Everett’s “James” Receives National Book Award for Retelling of Hunk Finn
Last night, the new book James by Percival Everett won the National Book Award for Fiction. The book is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures…