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2020
In 1863 When a Black Man Refused to be Whipped Was He a Murderer if He Killed His Enslaver?original ↗
12 Jun 2020
8 Jun 2020
“The fundamental principle of Democracy is that Negro Suffrage is wrong” Debating the 15th Amendment in Georgiaoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
Southern Historical Society Holds First Meeting May 1869 for “history of the war from a Southern stand-point”original ↗
3 Jun 2020
Book Review: Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans by M. Keith Harrisoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
31 May 2020
29 May 2020
26 May 2020
20 May 2020
Watch Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War” Recorded in Brooklyn Todayoriginal ↗
7 May 2020
2020 Pulitzer Prize in History Goes to Book on Freedwoman Who Sued Her Enslaver During Reconstructionoriginal ↗
5 May 2020
Courageous Journalist Ida B. Wells Honored by Pulitzer Prize Committee for Struggle Against Lynchingoriginal ↗
5 May 2020
19 Apr 2020
Podcast: Nina Silber on How the Civil War and Reconstruction Were Remembered in the 1930s and 1940soriginal ↗
18 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelsonoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020
Video: Final Panel of CUNY Abolitionist Conference Catherine Clinton , Eric Foner, James Brewer Stewart, and Sean Wilentzoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2020
28 Mar 2020
Video: The Abolitionists and the Political Crisis of the 1850s from CUNY Abolitionist Conferenceoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2020
27 Mar 2020
Part 7: Free Civil War and Reconstruction e-books from UNC African American History & Wayne State University Pressoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2020
Part 6: Free Civil War and Reconstruction e-books from Universities of Missouri, Arizona, Temple, Cornell and Texas Techoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2020
Part 5: Free OnLine Books from University of Georgia Press on Civil War & Reconstruction Erasoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2020
25 Mar 2020
Part 3: More Free Civil War and Reconstruction Books to Read This Time from Fordham University Press’s The North’s Civil War Seriesoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2020
Part 2 The Classics: Even More Free Online Civil War and Reconstruction Books from University of North Carolina Pressoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2020
Part 1: Free Online Access to Hundreds of Great Civil War and Reconstruction Books from University of North Carolina Pressoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2020
Video: Panel on the Revolutionary War Origins of the Abolitionist Movement from CUNY Conference “The Antislavery Bulwark”original ↗
22 Mar 2020
Andrew Johnson’s Final “State of the Union” Analyzes the Problems of Reconstruction Dec. 1868original ↗
20 Mar 2020
The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America by William G. Thomasoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2020
“…our friend is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux ” A Klan Killing of a Carolina State Senatororiginal ↗
17 Mar 2020
May 1865: African American Community in New Orleans Celebrates the First Anniversary of Its School for Black Childrenoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2020
14 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020
Fr. Ryan, “Poet Priest of the South,” Denounces “Richmond Irish Radical Republicans” Sept 1868original ↗
11 Mar 2020
9 Mar 2020
Indiana Dems Explain Their Principled Opposition to 15th Amendment: “the government was formed for white men” March 1869original ↗
5 Mar 2020
Panel Discusses Exhibit at Atlanta History Center on Black Citizenship During Reconstruction and Jim Croworiginal ↗
4 Mar 2020
President Grant Appoints Elizabeth Van Lew Postmaster for Richmond & Gen. Longstreet Collector of the Port of NOLA March, 1869original ↗
2 Mar 2020
Grant Appoints Elizabeth Van Lew Postmaster for Richmond & Gen. Longstreet Collector of the Port of NOLA March, 1869original ↗
2 Mar 2020
March 1, 1869 Nevada First State to Ratify 15th Amendment Barring Racial Exclusion from Votingoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2020
The Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor “Takes its stand” as a “White Man’s Newspaper” March 1869original ↗
29 Feb 2020
Opposing the 15th Amendment: The Conservative and Democratic Argument Against Blacks Voting 1869-1870original ↗
29 Feb 2020
SUNY Binghamton Professor Anne Bailey Interviewed About Her Project Documenting Where Slaves Were Sold in U.S.original ↗
28 Feb 2020
March 18, 1869: Pres. Grant Signs Law Barring Racial Discrimination in Laws in District of Columbiaoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2020
Slate Slavery In America Podcast: Episode 1 The Terrible Transformation of Slavery in the 1600soriginal ↗
27 Feb 2020
NY Times Interviews Edward Achorn, the Author of “Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.”original ↗
24 Feb 2020
Platform of the Virginia Conservatives April 1869 “setting forth the policy of the white people of the state”original ↗
24 Feb 2020
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson Heavily Discounted on Amazonoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2020
Washington Post: If Johnson Was Impeached and Removed, Jeff Davis Might Have Been Executedoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2020
23 Feb 2020
“We Go to the Polls for the First Time in 8 Years…& the White Vote Will Fall Into the Ballot Box”original ↗
21 Feb 2020
Jamelle Bouie in NY Times on How the 15th Amendment Could Have Better Protected Black Voting Rightsoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2020
Elizabeth R. Varon Wins Lincoln Prize for “Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War”original ↗
19 Feb 2020
19 Feb 2020
18 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020
Eric Foner in the New York Times on the 150th Anniversary of the Election of the First Black Senator Hiram Revelsoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020
“The Murder of Negroes is a Daily Occurrence” Louisiana Political Violence & the Election of 1868original ↗
13 Feb 2020
General John Logan Demands that Seven Republican Senators Who Voted Against Impeachment Be Expelled from Partyoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2020
The Senate Votes to Acquit Pres. Johnson on Article 11 of the Articles of Impeachment by One Voteoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2020