Civil War

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/13/19
  

  What Democrats Can Learn About Impeachment From the Civil War

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Lesson One: Don’t let Trump take the initiative.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  What to Do With Richmond’s Confederate Statues

  Richmond’s Monument Avenue is lined with Confederate statues, but an exhibition filled with proposals to replace them struggles to find a road forward.

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• 5/12/19
  

  The Remarkable History of the Union League Club

  by Michael Hogan

  Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/7/19
  

  Relics of Rebel Slave Fort Unearthed by Hurricane Michael

  The site was recently listed as part of the NPS’ Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  

  Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary

  by Keri Leigh Merritt

  The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.

• SOURCE: History.com
  4/24/19
  

  America Flirted with Legalized Prostitution During the Civil War

  As the Union Army faced down a public health crisis in Nashville, it had no choice but to accept the city’s sex workers.

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• 4/21/19
  

  Civil War History Brought to Life

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  "What better, than to see in motion, the very people or places you are reading about."

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• SOURCE: UCONN
  Accessed 4/17/19
  

  Livestream event: The Greater Reconstruction: American Democracy after the Civil War

  Details about the conference and livestream. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/4/19
  

  What new research on slave-owning dynasties tell us about how wealth is really handed down

  The contribution of an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/2/19
  

  She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi.

  The author Zora Neale Hurston discovered Redoshi, who became known as Sally Smith after being enslaved, while doing research for her literary works in the South.

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/2/19
  

  How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism

  by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.

  Regardless of its brevity, Reconstruction remains one of the most pivotal eras in the history of race relations in American history —­ and probably the most misunderstood.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/25/19
  

  An enormous Confederate flag is going on display in Philly this week — here’s why

  “What would it mean to the psychology of this nation if the truce flag replaced the flag associated with hate and white supremacy?”

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/25/19
  

  Aline Helg on her newly translated book, Slave No More

  Helg describes what examining self-liberation from a continental perspective—beyond the confines of a particular country—teaches us about slavery and liberation.

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• 3/24/19
  

  A House Once More Divided

  by Georgiann Baldino

  Lincoln understood that involved citizens preserve the union, and he taught a vital lesson that only when human rights are respected is democracy worth preserving.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/17/19
  

  Atlanta’s Civil War Monument, Minus the Pro-Confederate Bunkum

  A new exhibition of a gigantic painting uses historical fact to dispel Lost Cause mythology.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/17/19
  

  Her image had been buried near a Civil War battlefield for 100 years. Then I found her.

  A story uncovering and restoring a piece of Civil War history.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue: A Southern Unionist’s Viewpoint

  by Elizabeth Varon

  Elizabeth Van Lew was a Southerner who supported the Union. She--and other Southern Unionists--deepen our understanding of the Civil War and its legacies. 

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• 3/10/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Civil War Historian Anne Sarah Rubin

  by Erik Moshe

  “To hold your own book is to have achieved something permanent in an ephemeral world.”

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  2/23/19
  

  Civil War soldier’s gravestone discovered, may offer vital clue to long-lost African-American cemetery

  The Civil War soldier’s headstone offers an insight into the lives of those buried at the Frankford site.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/15/19
  

  The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers’

  by Colbert I. King

  Like dreamers of today, those black soldiers and sailors also had families and attended churches; some were enrolled in schools.