New Museum Exhibit Recalls the “Last Confederate Flag”
An exhibit at deCordova Park in Lincoln, Mass. recalls the final flag of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the white flag of surrender. Entitled “Monumental…
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…
1878 Lynching in Kentucky Commemorated
Shelbyville, Kentucky unveiled three historical markers last week memorializing lynchings in the community. The markers were erected by local community groups and the equal justice…
Historians Urge School Districts to Teach the Reconstruction Era
180 historians have signed an open letter urging school districts to devote more time and resources to the teaching of the Reconstruction Era. The signers include…
The Ku Klux Klan’s Anti-Asian Campaign in Reconstruction Era California
The Atlantic Magazine has an article on the Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan in California. Historian Kevin Waite has identified a dozen attacks by the…
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine published by Simon & Schuster (March 2, 2021). Older readers remember that in…
Around the Web April 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
We are back for a look at the Best of the Web over the last month. Zooms continued strong, and are likely to endure even…
Reconstructing American Womanhood: War and Change in Women’s Lives
We sometimes mistakenly associate the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras with the “Ideals of Victorian Womanhood,” as though all women sought to nestle inside of…
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…
New Book by Kate Masur on “America’s First Civil Rights Movement” Reviewed by NY Times
The new book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction by historian Kate Masur got an extremely favorable…