Category: Slavery
New Yorker: Should Dred Scott Decision Be Taught in Law School?
The New Yorker has an essay on the trend in some law schools to no longer have students read the entire Dred Scott Decision in…
Francis Parkman Prize Goes to New Work on Nat Turner
The prestigious Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually by the Society of American Historians to a nonfiction work of history on an American theme published…
NY Times Reviews How the Word Was Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
The Sunday New York Times reviews HOW THE WORD IS PASSED: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith. Here are…
Fort Benning’s Namesake Explained the Reason for Georgia’s Secession at Virginia Secession Convention
Henry Benning, after whom the Army base Fort Benning in Georgia is named, was a leader of the secession movement in his home state. After…
Kate Masur’s New Book on America’s “First Civil Rights Movement” Reviewed Again in the NY Times!
America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur has been reviewed for a second time by the New York Times…
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra published by Liveright 448 pages (2020). Long before the modern field of Civil War Memory…
Black History/Black Resistance
Reconstruction began while the Civil War was still raging. As Black refugees from slavery reached Union lines, they forced the United States government to reconstruct…
Free On-Line Museum Exhibit on Life of Frederick Douglass
For our Pandemic Black History Month, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute has created a virtual museum exhibit on the life of Frederick Douglass told through the artifacts…
Yale University Sets Up Working Group on the School’s Ties to Slavery and Racism
In October, Yale University established a working group of students, faculty, and people from the local community to investigate the school’s links to slavery and…
Effort by Trump Administration to Alter History Teaching Condemned by Actual Historians
The final effort by the Trump administration to alter the teaching of history was a report from the newly minted 1776 Commission released on Martin…
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