Category: Women and Gender
Some Southern Women Wanted to Change the Words to Confederate National Anthem “Dixie”
We sometimes hear Confederate Heritage groups claim that moving a monument or taking down a Confederate Battle Flag amounts to “changing history.” What they don’t…
“Who wrote women out of Civil War history?” An Essay by Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple has an interesting essay in The New Republic on why historians long ignored the roles of women in the American Civil War. As…
Democrat Explains Why Southern Whites Resist “Black Rule” July 16, 1868
Allen Granberry Thurman (November 13, 1813 – December 12, 1895) is hardly a household name today, but in the mid-19th Century he was a well-known…
Anna Dickinson: Don’t Hide Principles of Equality Behind Grant’s Cigar Smoke on Votes for Blacks June 1868
Anna Dickinson was a teen sensation as an abolitionist public speaker in the late 1850s. During the Civil War she became the first woman to…
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams published by University of North Carolina Press (2007) $29.95 Paperback $18.83 Kindle. Self-Taught:…
When Confederate Heritagers Rejected A.P. Hill’s Daughter as the “Daughter of the Confederacy”
Many of us know that Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis and pictured above, was given the title “The Daughter of the Confederacy” by many…
Look What Just Dropped: Harriet Tubman BioPic Trailer Out!
The trailer just dropped for the new film Harriet about the life of abolitionist, Union spy, and African American civil rights leader Harriet Tubman. The…
Miscegenation Waltz: Fined $50 for Marrying a Black Woman July 1866
Before most Southern states began rebuilding their damaged infrastructure or taking care of their crippled veterans right after the Civil War, their legislatures busied themselves…
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