Monthly Archives: May 2019
History of Impeachment
Here’s a discussion about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the near-impeachment of Richard Nixon, and the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Historian Jon Meacham discusses the Andrew Johnson impeachment. The video’s description reads, “The co-authors of Impeachment: An American History talked about the only three presidential impeachment proceedings ever conducted: those involving Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. Participants were […]
Episode 52: History of the iPhone Generation
Here’s Professor John Fea and his terrific podcast, “The Way of Improvement Leads Home,” interviewing Professor Sam Wineburg of Stanford University on teaching history and assessing student performance. This is a great conversation, especially for teachers.
Reconstruction and Jim Crow Laws
Here’s Dr. Henry Louis Gates at the National Constitution Center talking about Reconstruction and moving on to the Jim Crow era. It’s pretty good. The video’s description reads, “Historian Henry Louis Gates talked about Reconstruction, which lasted from the end of the Civil War until 1877, the amendments passed during this time to promote equality for African […]
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
This book by Professor David W. Blight of Yale University recently won the Pulitzer Prize, and it’s well deserved. The book is richly researched and beautifully written. The book is a complete biography of Douglass. “Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave, in Talbot County, Maryland, in February 1818, the future Frederick Douglass was the […]
Thunder at the Gates
This book by Professor Douglas Egerton discusses three United States Colored Troops regiments, the 54th Massachusetts, the 55th Massachusetts, and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, which were real black soldiers in the Civil War, not the mythological ones pushed by confederate heritage apologists. Following the precept that the most interesting history writing is writing that reads […]
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
This outstanding book comes to us from the pen of Professor Charles W. Calhoun, the Thomas Harriot College Distinguished Professor of History emeritus at East Carolina University. Professor Calhoun dispels myths that have grown up around the Grant Presidency because he didn’t parrot what other historians said about Grant. Instead, he went back to the […]
Upon the Fields of Battle
If you’re worried about the state of military history in the study of the Civil War, this fine volume should alleviate your fears. Edited by Drs. Drew Bledsoe and Andrew Lang, the book features twelve essays from some of the top historians in Civil War history. Bledsoe and Lang team up for the first essay, […]
Student of the American Civil War 
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