Around the Web February 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This has been a strong month for history blogging. There are also good book reviews and podcasts as well. Blogs Nick Sacco writes about historian…
New Website Tells Story of Millican Massacre in 1868 Texas
In the Summer of 1868 a massacre of freedpeople took place in Millican, Texas. Reports on the numbers killed vary widely, but all agree that…
Jamelle Bouie on How the Domestic Slave Trade Worked
Jamelle Bouie has a big article in the New York Times Sunday Review on the Atlantic Slave Trade today, bit he also wrote a short…
Animated Map of the Slave Trade Shows All Recorded Voyages
This animated map depicting the “slave trade” has been around for a number of years. About 4% of those Atlantic slave trade ships landed in…
Refuting the Lost Cause Argument of Alexander Stephens: What About the Slavery?
Alexander Stephens was the Confederate Vice President who said that slavery was the “Cornerstone” of the Confederacy. After the Confederacy was defeated and slavery was…
Free Civil War Seminar at Longwood University in Virginia Feb. 12
From the National Parks Service: The public is invited to join the National Park Service and Longwood University at the annual free Civil War Seminar…
Montgomery, Alabama’s Confederate Memory and Black Erasure
Kyle Whitmire of the Birmingham News is writing a series called “State of Denial” which looks at how Alabama tells its history, valorizing the Confederate…
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…
The Man Who Was a Confederate, in the USCT, and Whose Enrollment in College Led to the Departure of Many Students
The Washington Post has an interesting article on a Black man who passed for white and who became a powerful post-war political figure during Reconstruction….
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…