General Grant in Manhattan: Photo Tour of Grant’s Tomb
Grant’s Tomb July 15, 2018 Michele and I headed to Manhattan a while ago to visit the General Grant National Memorial, better known as…
In May 1869 Robert E. Lee Called on President Grant at the White House
On May 1, 1869 Robert E. Lee visited U.S. Grant at the White House. This meeting would be variously interpreted over the years. The two…
Ulysses S. Grant in Brooklyn: The Great Statue No One Knows About
Major General Ulysses S. Grant is remembered at several locations in New York City. Grant’s Tomb is the most famous memorial, but the often ignored…
The New “Grant” Miniseries Is Based on a Bio by Ron Chernow. How Good Was the Book?
Yale historian David Blight wrote a mixed review of Ron Chernow’s “Grant” in the New York Review of Books when the biography appeared in 2018….
Watch Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War” Recorded in Brooklyn Today
Historian Heather Cox Richardson gave a talk today at the Brooklyn Historical Society on her new book How the South Won the Civil War which…
Eric Foner Reviews New Book on Radical Republicans in The Nation Magazine
Eric Foner reviews LeeAnna Keith’s new book on the Radical Republicans in this week’s The Nation Magazine. The preeminent historian of the Reconstruction Era gives…
2020 Pulitzer Prize in History Goes to Book on Freedwoman Who Sued Her Enslaver During Reconstruction
The Pulitzer Prize in history was awarded to W. Caleb McDaniel for his new book about slavery and reparations during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Sweet…
Courageous Journalist Ida B. Wells Honored by Pulitzer Prize Committee for Struggle Against Lynching
Ida B. Wells was one of the strongest voices for Black freedom during the Jim Crow Era. An outstanding journalist, she campaigned against lynching alongside…
A “Torrent of Immigrants” Arrive in New York April 1869
While we think of the Reconstruction Era as a time of change and reaction in the South, the North was also being remade. Immigration spiked…
When Black and White Refugees Fled to Atlanta to Escape the Klan May 1869
Political and racial violence in the Reconstruction Era South was a factor in setting Southerners, Black and white, into motion as refugees. Ku Klux attacks…