Part 11: I Am Still Finding More Free Books on the Civil War and Reconstruction!
I have found yet another bunch of other free books. As my regular readers know, Project Muse is making hundreds of Civil War and Reconstruction…
David Blight Writes in NY Times on the History of Voter Suppression
David Blight has an interesting article in the New York Times on how current efforts to suppress the vote echo those tried during the Reconstruction…
Part 10: University of Massachusetts Civil War and Reconstruction Books Now Free Online
Another university publisher is making its books available free online. Now the University of Massachusetts Press has made dozens of books on the Civil War…
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson published by Scribner (2020). Hardcover…
Part 9: University of Tennessee Offers Its Civil War and Reconstruction Books Free Online
The University of Tennessee Press has joined a dozen other scholarly presses to make its Civil War and Reconstruction books free on Project Muse during…
Historian Greg Downs on What Modern Democrats Can Learn from Reconstruction Republicans
In an interesting essay on TPM today, historian Greg Downs writes that the Republican Party’s willingness to embrace unorthodox methods during the Civil War and…
Historian David Blight on the Example of Lincoln and the Pandemic
Yale historian David Blight has an interesting article in The Atlantic this week on how emergencies teach us the importance of government. Blight writes: In…
Video: Final Panel of CUNY Abolitionist Conference Catherine Clinton , Eric Foner, James Brewer Stewart, and Sean Wilentz
Here is the final panel from the CUNY The Anti-Slavery Bulwark Conference on the Abolitionists and the coming of the Civil War. The final panel…
Video: Anti-Slavery Politics in the Antebellum Era from CUNY Conference on Abolitionists
This is the third video in a series on the Abolition Movement that was held at CUNY back in 2014. This panel looked at the…
Video: The Abolitionists and the Political Crisis of the 1850s from CUNY Abolitionist Conference
The next video in the series from CUNY’s great conference on Abolitionism is filled with heavy hitters talking about the political crisis of the 1850s….