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New York Times Reviews The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine
This week, the New York Times reviewed The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine from W.W….
Election of 1872: The First Woman Presidential Candidate and Frederick Douglass
The Harvard Gazette has an interesting article on the Election of 1872 focusing on the first woman candidate for president. Victoria Woodhull was a free-thinking…
The Challenge for Frederick Douglass: Lee’s Death, Black Soldiers & the Memory of the Civil War
Frederick Douglass ECW I sometimes hear comedians joke that Black History Month, celebrated annually in February, is during the shortest month of the year. Rather…
Collection of Frederick Douglass Newspapers from Abolition to Reconstruction Now Available Online.
The Library of Congress announced today that it has made available over 500 issues of rare newspapers published by Frederick Douglas during both the pre-Civil…
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…
Savannah Is Hosting Fans of Frederick Douglass With Art and History Exhibits
The New York Times has an article on why Savannah has become a pilgrimage site for those interested in Frederick Douglass, a man who never…
When a Ban on Chinese Immigration Was Proposed in 1867 Frederick Douglass Stood Up in Opposition
Americans’ fear of non-white, non-Christian immigrants began in 1848 with the arrival of the first ship full of Chinese in San Francisco Bay. The Chinese…
Podcast Reenactment of Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” With David Blight
Here is a neat podcast re-enactment of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” delivered in Rochester, NY in…
David Blight on the Centrality of the 14th Amendment to Reconstruction’s Legacy
Several years ago Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Blight published an essay in The Atlantic on the centrality of the 14th Amendment that is well…
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