Smithsonian on Government Money Spent on Lost Cause Monuments
The Smithsonian Magazine has an article on government spending on Lost Cause-related sites. The article looks at how Confederate socialism has cost governments over $40…
Historian Greg Downs Says that Impeachment by House Can Be Effective Even if President Is Not Removed
Historian Greg Downs discusses the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 as a precedent for the current impeachment controversy. His article in the Washington Post…
Washington Post on Slavery at the University of Virginia-It Was Everywhere!
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor has a book coming out next week that looks at the connection between Thomas Jefferson’s beloved University of Virginia and…
Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran
Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran published by University of North Carolina Press (2013) 380 pages Hardcover $29.95 Kindle $17.49….
Listen to Keith Harris, The Rogue Historian, Interview Pat Young on Blogging the Civil War and Reconstruction
Last week I was interviewed by The Rogue Historian himself, Dr. Keith Harris, about blogging the Civil War and Reconstruction. If you like lively conversation…
The Freedmen’s Bureau Shut Down on January 1, 1869
The Freedmen’s Bureau was essentially shuttered in January 1, 1869. Only education services (and some medical services) continued. Across the South bureau agents and other…
Rejoicing at News that the Infernal Freedmen’s Bureau to Close at End of 1868
Those who hoped to advance the cause of white supremacy after the Civil War found themselves stymied by the Freedmen’s Bureau. This Federal agency set…
The National Military Asylum Cared for 4.000 Disabled Soldiers in 1868
The New York Times reported on the good work of the National Military Asylum in 1868. Unfortunately, it lauded the great economies practiced in caring…
Elaine Massacre of 1919 Memorialized in Arkansas Recalling Mass Killing of Black Families
1919 was a year of extreme racial violence in America. The “Red Summer” of that year saw what may have been the largest massacre of…
KKK Raiders Defeated by “Negroes” in Livingston, Tenn. Dec. 30, 1868
The Ku Klux Klan rampaged through Tennessee in 1868, but as this article demonstrates, the local African American communities were ready to risk everything to…