Columbia University Historians Abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction & BLM
Columbia University historians Christopher L. Brown, Eric Foner, Stephanie McCurry, and Bailey Yellen held a Zoom meeting this week to discuss the Black Lives Matter…
John Oliver Discusses How U.S. Schools Teach Slavery and Reconstruction
John Oliver has a funny/angry take on how children in the United States are taught the history of slavery, Emancipation, Reconstruction and White Supremacy. Adult…
University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy
University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy published by Oxford University Press…
Historian Caroline Janney Looks at Trump’s The Lost Cause in the WaPo
The Washington Post has an essay today by Caroline Janney about the Lost Cause and Donald Trump. Janney is a leading historian of the Civil…
John Lewis Crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge Named After a Klan Leader
Most of you know that John Lewis was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. You may have seen Lewis’s body carried across the…
Southern Newspaper Reflects on the Change in New Orleans Race Relations Caused by Union Occupation
Here is an interesting article on Union occupied/liberated New Orleans from a pro-Confederate newspaper in Texas. The article takes up nearly a full page in…
Podcast: Eric Foner on the “Fake History” of Reconstruction
Ideastream has a twelve minute interview with Eric Foner on Reconstruction which focuses on the damage done by the fake history of the period that…
Photo Tour of the Home of Jupiter Hammon-the First Published Black Writer in U.S.
Jupiter Hammon was the first black author to see his or her works published in what is now the United States. Hammon was born into…
When “The Arrival of Negro Troops” Signaled the End of the Confederacy in the Spring of 1865
Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army on April 9, 1865. In April and May of 1865 the remaining Confederate forces surrendered to Union armies….
“It is the aim…to make colored troops equal” Black Troops in Tennessee March 1864
In 1863 the Union Army began to actively recruit African American men for the United States Colored Troops (USCT). While enlisted men in these regiments…