How South Carolina Explained the Civil War & Reconstruction to Potential Immigrants in 1908
To encourage immigration from abroad, South Carolina published The Handbook of South Carolina in 1908. The book was designed to give foreigners considering a move…
University of South Carolina Gets New Historical Marker on the College & Reconstruction
At the start of the Martin Luther King Day weekend, the University of South Carolina celebrated its brief period of racial integration during Reconstruction with…
Around the Web January 2023: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Because it was the Holiday Season, December was a little lighter on social media than other months, but there was still plenty of interesting new…
Jon Meacham On How Growing Up Near Civil War Battlefields Helped Him Become a Historian
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jon Meacham has a new book out on Abe Lincoln. Today’s New York Times has an article on how Meacham came…
Harriet Tubman & William Seward Schenectady Monument Photo Tour
Schenectady, New York west of Albany along the Mohawk River has several Civil War and Reconstruction sites. At the time of the Civil War, this…
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country Wins A.M. Pate Award for Trans-Mississippi Civil War History
The 2022 A.M. Pate Award for the best book on the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi has been awarded to Fay Yarbrough for her book…
Patchogue, Long Island, Civil War Soldier Monument Photo Tour
Patchogue, New York is on Long Island. A bustling village that tens of thousands use as a port to travel to Fire Island in the…
Ohio Creates Ulysses S. Grant Day April 27
April 27 will henceforth be celebrated as Ulysses S. Grant Day in Ohio. Legislation passed in Grant’s Bicentennial year of 2022 and was signed into…
Did Civil War Era Southerners Really Think of Their States As Their Countries?
I engage with hundreds of people on social media in conversations about the Civil War and Reconstruction. One thing I have heard many times in…
Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery to Be Removed-But What to Do With It?
One of the most controversial Confederate monuments is the massive one at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington D.C. For nearly a decade calls for…