Connecticut Creates Database of Its Black Civil War USCT Troops
The Connecticut State Library has digitalized its records of Black men from the state who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil…
New Curriculum Available on “Lincoln and the Jews”
The Shapell Foundation was the force behind a Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibition at the New York Historical Society on Lincoln’s interactions with the emerging Jewish…
Frederick Douglass Identifies the Cause of Death of Robert E. Lee in 1870
Frederick Douglass published the New National Era newspaper in Washington beginning in 1870. When Robert E. Lee died on October 12, 1870, his passing was…
Historian Martha Jones Writes That University Founder Johns Hopkins Was Slaveowner, Not Abolitionist
Martha Jones is a well-known historian who teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Recently she was asked to research the school’s involvement with slavery. Her findings…
When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War
On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…
New Website Launched With Searchable Database of Enslaved People
Databases of people of African descent held as slaves have been around for a number of years, but a new website that partners Harvard and…
Smithsonian Magazine’s 10 Best History Books of 2020 Include Several on Civil War and Reconstruction
Every year Smithsonian Magazine releases its list of the Ten Best History Books of the Year. The 2020 list includes several on the Civil War…
An Irish Immigrant Supporter of Lincoln Writes to His Daughter that the 1876 Election Is a Fraud
Patrick Guiney was the colonel commanding the Irish 9th Massachusetts Regiment when he was badly wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness. He would suffer…
Podcast on the 1898 White Supremacist Coup that Took Control of Wilmington, N.C.
In 1898 the Redshirts, a White Supremacist paramilitary organization operating in the Carolinas, staged a coup in which they took over North Carolina’s second largest…
How to Manufacture a Faithless Elector: Oregon in the Election of 1876
Oregon was a young state in 1876 and its politics were unpredictable. With only three Electoral votes, it did not get much attention during the…