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…
Book Review: The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, a Deeply Flawed Classic
The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren published by Bison Books, 109 pages (1960, reissued 1998). $14.95 Paperback, $11.14 Kindle. The question you…
Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940s
Nina Silber, the author of This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America is interviewed by Gerry Prokopowicz for this podcast from…
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…