Posted in Civil War Places to Visit USCT

Exhibit of Paintings of United States Colored Troops Opens in Lexington Park Md.

I received this press release of a new exhibit that people near Lexington Park, Maryland may want to visit. The U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Interpretive…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction

Planned Fayetteville Museum of Civil War and Reconstruction Hearing at Fayetteville City Council

The City of Fayetteville has played a big role in getting a planned museum on the Civil War and Reconstruction underway. The new museum was…

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Posted in Civil War Slavery White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

Stone Mountain Still a Lost Cause Shrine

In the Spring of 2021, the state agency managing Stone Mountain in Georgia promised to begin altering the Lost Cause presentation of the Civil War…

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Posted in Civil War

Video: The Port Royal Experiment Talk by Ranger Chris Barr on How Coastal Carolina Was an Experiment in Black Freedom

Chris Barr is back with a new short video on the “Port Royal Experiment.” This is how Beaufort, South Carolina and the nearby islands were…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction

Video: Ranger Chris Barr Explains the Reconstruction Era in Beaufort, South Carolina and When Stuff Happened

National Park Ranger Chris Barr is very well-respected among Civil War and Reconstruction Era students. Last month Reconstruction Era National Park began releasing short videos…

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Posted in Civil War Places to Visit Veterans

Civil War Monuments in Biddeford Maine & Local Graves of Veterans

My last stop during my August trip to the Southeast Maine Coast was in Biddeford, Maine. Today, this is a bustling city with both a…

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Posted in Education Memory of Reconstruction

Eric Foner in NYRB Reviews New Book on How Race and Reconstruction Have Been Taught

The New York Review of Books has a review by Eric Foner of Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National…

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Posted in Lost Cause

West Point Historian Brigadier General (Ret.) Ty Seidule On the Persistence of Confederate Icons in Modern America

Retired West Point historian and brigadier general Ty Seidule spoke with The Guardian recently about the persistence of Confederate iconography in modern America. Here are…

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Posted in Book Reviews Lost Cause

Around the Web September 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

August tends to be a slow month for podcasts, but it was a great one for blog posts and book reviews. Enjoy! Blogs Scott Hartwig…

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Posted in Education

New Orleans Lusher Charter School Changes Name to Get Rid of Association With Reconstruction Segregationist

The Lusher Charter School in New Orleans has been renamed the Willow School because the man after whom it was originally named was an architect…

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