ECW Archives
-
Recent Posts
Search by Post Categories
Subscribe BY RSS
Email Subscription
Category Archives: Antebellum South
The Resonance of The Field of Blood
I recently finished reading The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman, and in all honesty, I can’t remember a history book that seemed more relevant or resonant. Published in 2018, … Continue reading
Aunt Jemima and the Lost Cause
Quaker Oats has just announced they will retire the Aunt Jemima brand name and imagery. The ready-made, self-rising pancake mix got its start in 1889 at the Pearl Milling Company in St. Joseph, Missouri. The initial owners soon went bankrupt … Continue reading
BookChat with Leon Reed, author of No Greater Calamity for the Country
I was pleased to spend some time recently with No Greater Calamity for the Country: North-South Conflict, Secession, and the Onset of Civil War, a new release by Leon Reed from Little Falls Books. Leon was kind enough to take a … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Books & Authors, Economics, Politics
Tagged Adam Goodheart, Ben Butler, Border States, contraband, David Detzer, Elizabeth Varon, Fort Monroe, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hiram Roosa, John Lockwood, Leon Reed, Lincoln, Little Falls Books, Memory, New York Military Association, No Greater Calamity for the Country, patriotic envelopes, politics, Rebellion Record, Robert Anderson, secession
3 Comments
Questions of Secession (conclusion)
part five of five I’ve been chatting about secession lately with historian Nathan Hall of Richmond National Battlefield Park. Nathan has been studying the topic deeply for many years and recently spoke on it at the Richmond Civil War Roundtable. … Continue reading
Questions of Secession (part three)
part three of five I’ve been chatting about secession lately with historian Nathan Hall of Richmond National Battlefield Park. Nathan has been studying the topic deeply for many years and recently spoke on it at the Richmond Civil War Roundtable. … Continue reading
Questions of Secession (part two)
part two of five I’ve been chatting about secession lately with historian Nathan Hall of Richmond National Battlefield Park. Nathan has been studying the topic deeply for many years and recently spoke on it at the Richmond Civil War Roundtable. … Continue reading
Questions of Secession (part one)
part one of five As a Richmond National Battlefield Park Volunteer, I have spent many Saturdays talking about the legality of secession with Nathan Hall, a historian and park ranger at Richmond. Nathan has been studying the topic deeply for … Continue reading
BookChat with Michael Woods, author of Arguing Until Doomsday
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Michael E. Woods, associate professor of history at Marshall University. Dr. Woods is the author of Arguing Until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Books & Authors, Politics
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, antebellum politics, Arguing Until Doomsday, Blundering Generation, BookChat, Democratic Party, Great Triumvirate, Jefferson Davis, Michael E. Woods, Roy F. Nichols, Samuel Ashton, Seriah the Scribe, Stephen Douglas, The Disruption of American Democracy, UNC Press, University of Chicago
3 Comments
Book Review: “Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory”
“Slavery, slavery, slavery! All this talk about slavery is spoiling the Old South Plantation Christmas celebrations!” Or so might Miss Scarlett complain. Robert E. May’s latest book, Yuletide in Dixie, is focused clearly on the irony of two competing mythologies concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Book Review, Books & Authors, Civilian, Holidays, Slavery
Tagged antebellum Christmas, Preservation, Robert E. May, Yuletide in Dixie
2 Comments
