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Barbara Gannon on Finding the “Lost Graves” of Black Soldiers Killed at the Battle of Olustee: Video

I was reading Kevin Levin’s Substack yesterday  and he posted this talk by historian Barbara Gannon, which I had not seen before. Gannon teaches history…

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Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940s

Nina Silber, the author of This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America is interviewed by Gerry  Prokopowicz for this podcast from…

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Book Review: This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber

This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber published by Univerity of North Carolina Press (2018) 234 pages. Hardcover $32.95…

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Article in Jacobin on the Memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Robert Greene II, a PhD student at the University of South Carolina, has a brief article in Jacobin on the memory of the Civil War…

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