Book on Overthrow of Reconstruction in Wilmington Wins Pulitzer and Book on Civil War in Southwest Named Finalist
A book about the late ending of Reconstruction in Wilmington, North Carolina received a Pulitzer Prize on Friday and another book on the Civil War…
Visiting Thad Stevens Sites Near Gettysburg With WaPo
Visitors to Gettysburg may want to take in the sites connected to one of its most famous residents, Thad Stevens. The bio-pic Lincoln gave Tommy…
Black Celebration Day of New Won Citizenship Turns to Bloody Night in Norfolk in April, 1866
This is the story of a night of horror that began as celebration of the recognition of the citizenship of Black people. The death toll…
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…
David Reynolds Wins Lincoln Prize for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
From the sponsors of the Lincoln Prize: Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has named David S. Reynolds, author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln…
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…
New Reconstruction Trail Opened in Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina was the capital when the state had its first Black-majority legislature. From 1865 to 1876 it was the center of a civil…
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…
Book Roundup of Some of the Best Reconstruction and Race Books of the Pandemic Year
Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just…
American Legion Suspends Post that Cut-Off Veteran’s Mic at Memorial Day Ceremony
The decision to cut-off the mic of retired Lt. Col. Bernard Kemter at a Memorial Day commemoration in Hudson, Ohio when he described an 1865…