Tag: black confederates
About that Meme Showing a Charge by a “Black Confederate Regiment”
A new meme is making the rounds supposedly showing a charge by a unit of “Black Confederates.” The meme notes that on March 13, 1865…
The Pat Cleburne Emancipation Proposal Tells Us a Lot About the Cause He Served Civil War Reconstruction Podcast
Pat Cleburne was a hard-fighting Irish immigrant who rose to the rank of Major General in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. In 1864 he shocked…
Podcast Interview of Kevin M. Levin Author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth”
Kevin M. Levin, author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth,” was recently interviewed on Civil War Talk Radio by host…
Kevin Levin’s “Searching for Black Confederates” Named a Scholar’s Choice for Favorite History Book of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine
Yesterday I posted the Smithsonian Magazine’s picks for the best books of 2019. Today I am posting the Civil War/Reconstruction Era books named in the…
British Newspaper The Guardian on Kevin Levin’s “Searching for Black Confederates”
Kevin Levin’s new book Searching for Black Confederates continues to garner interest in the press. The British paper The Guardan has an article on it today….
Kevin Levin Speaks at National Archives About the Black Confederate Myth
My review of Kevin Levin’s new book Searching for Black Confederates was my second most popular article over the last month. Yesterday, the historian spoke…
Kevin Levin Interviewed About “Searching for Black Confederates,” One of the Most Controversial Civil War Books of 2019
Kevin Levin, author of the new book Searching for Black Confederates, is interviewed this week by Keith Harris. You can listen using the player below:…
Book Review: Searching for Black Confederates by Kevin Levin
Newly Published Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin published by University of North Carolina Press (2019) Hardcover…
Kevin Levin Tells the Real Story of the Black Men Confederates Brought to Gettysburg (They were slaves, not “Black Confederates”)
One of the more troubling manifestations of modern Civil War memory is the development of the Black Confederate Myth. Kevin Levin has an interesting article…
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