Monthly Archives: February 2024
A Confederate Artist’s Intimate Look at the Southern War Effort
This article by historian Steve Davis is from the Spring 2023 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “If you are familiar with Francis Trevelyan Miller’s Photographic History of the Civil War, you’re aware that wartime photographs were not published until shortly before 1911, when that monumental 10-volume work came out. That explains why, when in the mid-1880s […]
Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency
This book by Professor William C. Harris chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln from his earliest years to his first inauguration as President of the United States. Most modern-day historians regard Lincoln as a moderate. Radical Republicans regarded him as moderate or conservative. Democrats, especially proslavery Democrats, regarded him as a radical and an abolitionist. […]
How This Escaped Slave Got His Revenge on the Confederacy
This article is from the Winter 2023 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “In his 33 short years of life, Abraham Galloway impacted the course of American history more than men who lived to be twice his age—beginning with his bold escape from slavery. In the span of just a little more than a decade, […]
A Wrinkle in Time On the Grounds of an Infamous Civil War General’s Plantation
This article is from the Spring 2024 issue of Civil War Times magazine. “On a cloudless, deep-blue sky afternoon, I drive 45 miles south of Nashville to Columbia for a visit with one of my favorite people, Campbell Ridley. … Ridley’s roots run deep here in Maury County, one of the wealthiest counties in the […]
Was This Logistics Genius the Union’s Secret Weapon in the Civil War?
This article by Scott Hartwig is from the Winter 2023 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “During the 1864 Overland Campaign, staff officer Theodore Lyman marveled at the skill of the Army of the Potomac’s chief quartermaster Rufus Ingalls. ‘How these huge trains are moved over roads not fit for a light buggy, is a […]
Klan War
In this video Fergus Bordewich discusses how President Grant crushed the white supremacist terrorism of the first KKK, made up primarily of former confederate soldiers during Reconstruction. The video’s description reads, “Author Fergus Bordewich discussed President Ulysses Grant’s efforts to dismantle the KKK and other Reconstruction-era white supremist groups. The U.S. Capitol Historical Society hosted […]
The War for the Union: The Organized War 1863-1864
This book by Allan Nevins is the penultimate volume in his series, The Ordeal of the Union. “From the outset,” Professor Nevins writes, “the antagonists had been aware of a fundamental difference in position. The North had to fight for a decisive victory in the field; for the destruction or hopeless crippling of the Confederate […]
Flee North
This is journalist Scott Shane discussing his book about Thomas Smallwood, an escaped enslaved person who made his way to freedom. The video’s description reads, “Pulitzer Prize-winning author Scott Shane recounted the life of Thomas Smallwood, a slave who bought his freedom and helped hundreds to escape slavery. The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore hosted […]
British and Canadian Perspectives on American Slavery
This is a panel discussion on how British and Canadian newspapers perceived slavery and the Civil War in the United States. The video’s description reads, “Historians discussed British and Canadian perspectives on American slavery and the U.S. Civil War. The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians hosted this event as part of its symposium on the […]
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