Monthly Archives: December 2015
Aftermath of Slavery to Reconstruction
Here’s Professor Shawn Leigh Alexander of the University of Kansas delivering a lecture on what happened after slavery’s end. The video’s description reads, “Shawn Leigh Alexander spoke about the era in between the end of slavery and the beginning of segregation. Professor Alexander talked about the failed Civil Rights Act of 1875, the Supreme Court ‘s […]
Shortridge et al v. Macon
The citation for this case is 22 Fed. Cas. 20, Case No. 12,812. The case is from June, 1867 in the Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina, with Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. Shortridge and his co-plaintiffs were citizens of Pennsylvania who loaned money to Macon, a citizen of North Carolina. In […]
The Civil War: An American Iliad
This book by Otto Eisenschiml and Ralph Newman was originally The American Iliad: The Epic Story of the Civil War. You can download and read the original version for free here. Like Richard Harwell’s The Union Reader and The Confederate Reader, this book relies on words of the participants to tell most of the story, though many of […]
United States v. Smith
The citation for this case is 27 Fed. Cas. 1138, Case No. 16,320. It’s an 1855 case from the Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York, decided on February 24, 1855 and presided over by Justice Samuel Nelson and Federal Judge Samuel R. Betts. James Smith was charged with being a slave trader, […]
Aloha Friday December 25, 2015 Mele Kalikimaka
Mele Kalikimaka [Merry Christmas], everyone, and also Hau’oli Makahiki Hou [Happy New Year]. For those who don’t celebrate Christmas, Hau’oli Lanui [Happy Holidays]. It was 67 degrees this morning when I awoke, making me almost feel like I was back in Hawai’i for an instant. Here are a couple videos for a Hawai’ian Christmas. First, […]
Re-evaluating Mary Lincoln
In this lecture, Professor Catherine Clinton gives us what I think is a very accurate view of Mary Lincoln. I have a soft spot for Mary Lincoln, personally, and I think we need to cut her some slack. The video’s description reads, “Author Catherine Clinton talked about the changing historical narratives about President Lincoln’s wife, […]
The Confederate Reader
This book by Richard B. Harwell is the companion to his book, The Union Reader, reviewed earlier. Like the previous book, this book relies on hearing from the people who lived through the events to tell the story of the events. One thing about it is there is a slight but noticeable decrease in the percentage […]
Student of the American Civil War 
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