Tag: historiography
Posted in Civil War
Eric Foner on the Life of Southern Historian C. Vann Woodward Who Helped Change How We View the Civil War and Reconstruction
Eric Foner has an in-depth review of a new book on one of the most important 20th Century historians of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and…
Posted in Book Reviews
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research by Zachary Schrag
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research by Zachary Schrag published by Princeton University Press (2021) I am sometimes asked for advice on writing about history…
Posted in Abolitionists African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction Slavery
Five Historians’ Joint Critique of New York Times “1619” Series on Slavery
One of the most talked about popular history initiatives of 2019 was the “1619” series on the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the “first…
Posted in Slavery
Slavery as Cause of the Civil War: “Revisionists,” “NeoRevisionists,” and “Fundamentalists”
I was reading James Oakes’s “The Great Divide” in the New York Review of Books He offered an interesting discussion of the role of slavery…
Podcast: Eric Foner Interviewed on Reconstruction
Here is an interesting podcast of an interview with Eric Foner, the preeminent living scholar of Reconstruction. The sound quality is only OK and the…
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