The First Historical Marker Commemorating a Lynching in Missouri
The Equal Justice Inititative is installing community remembrance markers at the sites of places where African Americans were lynched. This is the first such marker…
NPR’s “On the Media” Interviews Historian Brenda Wineapple About the Andrew Johnson Impeachment
National Public Radio’s popular show On the Media focuses on the Andrew Johnson Impeachment this week. It is timely for obvious reasons. Historian Brenda Wineapple…
Resource: Reconstruction in Virginia
The Library of Virginia has an interesting online exhibit on Reconstruction in Virginia. You can check it out here. The online exhibit includes documents and…
Both “Harriet” & “Little Women” Getting on a Lot of “Best Movie ” Lists
“Harriet” and “Little Women are making it onto many “Best Film” lists as we enter the final month of the year. The New Yorker’s list…
David Blight Writes About Frederick Douglass’s Dream of a Pluralist Utopia
Pulitizer Prize winning historian David Blight writes in this month’s Atlantic Magazine about the post-Civil War vision of Frederick Douglass. According to Blight, Douglass had…
How “Little Women” Got Big from The New Yorker
The New Yorker had an interesting article on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Little Women was published in 1868 and 1869 and this is its…
Slate Reviews “Little Women,” Says It Is Best Movie Version Ever
Little Women will not be in the theaters until Christmas, but the reviews are starting to appear and they are generally quite good. While there…
“Terrorism in Tennessee” KKK in March 1868
I have sometimes been criticized for calling the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist organization by people who say that “terrorism” is a modern term. Many…
“Stony the Road” by Henry Louis Gates Named a “Must Read Book” by Time Magazine
Henry Louis Gates’s Reconstruction book Stony the Road was named one of Time Magazine’s “Must Read Books of 2019.” Here is what Time says about…
Episcopal Church Examines Its Involvement With Slavery in Delaware
I found an interesting 2009 report from the Episcopal Church in Delaware on that denomination and slavery. I was prompted to research by the discussion…