Antebellum South

“We Helped Them Escape Whenever We Could”: Southern Claims Commission Records Reveal a Free Black Petersburg Family’s Civil War Experience, Part I

by Tim Talbott

Posted on May 16, 2024

Dusty Bookshelf: Clement Eaton’s The Freedom of Thought Struggle in the Old South

by Max Longley

Posted on May 14, 2024

America’s Greatest Chess Player Was a Confederate?

by Evan Portman

Posted on May 1, 2024

Book Review: American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860

by ECWGuestReview

Posted on April 18, 2024

Book Review: In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

by Cecily Nelson Zander

Posted on March 7, 2024

Civil War Cooking: Patrick Cleburne’s Stewed Watermelon

by Sarah Kay Bierle

Posted on November 21, 2023

The case of the Douglas orphans’ seized cotton

by Max Longley

Posted on September 8, 2023

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and Jury Trials: Lincoln implicitly rejects a proslavery talking point

by Max Longley

Posted on August 11, 2023

A Surprising Friendship Formed at Lone Jack: Union Major Emory Foster and Bushwhacker/Bank Robber Cole Younger

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on July 19, 2023