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Civil War Weather—“Such an hour I have never witnessed:” Severe Weather Strikes the Army of the Potomac in 1864
ECW welcomes back guest author Mike Block May 2, 1864, was a day of transition and anticipation in the Army of the Potomac. The army’s winter encampment and a period of relative, restful quiet was coming to an ending. Active campaigning for the army, now under the watchful eye of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Who the Hell Was William Dunning & Did He Distort Reconstruction History?
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. A year ago I wrote a Martin Luther King Day essay on the critique the great Civil Rights leader had of the way the history of Reconstruction had been distorted by a number of white historians of the first half of […]
Read more...Year in Review 2022: Echoes of Reconstruction
ECW is pleased to have a partnership with Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Reconstruction was the unfinished work of the Civil War, and one can’t fully understand the war itself without looking at its aftermath. Of course, that poses challenges to historians because the memory of the war and Reconstruction remain contested […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Losing the “Lost Cause” in Historical Revisionism
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. The Lost Cause by Edward Pollard is a seminal work in the development of a Southern White historical tradition recalling, celebrating, and interpreting the fallen Confederacy to those who were part of the four-year experiment and to their children and grandchildren. […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Grant’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus in Parts of South Carolina to Fight Klan in 1871
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. On October 17, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in nine counties in South Carolina. During the previous year the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist armed groups had unleashed a campaign of violence against […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Jubal Early, Stonewall Jackson, and the Enduring Lost Cause
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Whenever an academic historian ventures onto popular Civil War media to discuss the Lost Cause interpretation of the war and its aftermath, anyone reading the comments will note the routine denunciation of the historian for employing a modern term, “Lost Cause,” to describe […]
Read more...Unpublished — The International War: Alabama Claims Documentation
This source is not exactly unpublished, but close. It was printed once—long ago—by the U. S. government. Until recently, it was scarce and mostly unknown. And it is a treasure trove of primary source material for the international and naval arenas of the Civil War. The Case of Great Britain as laid before the Tribunal […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: The Spread of Juneteenth Celebrations Throughout Texas
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. I had never heard of Juneteenth until I was attending college in Buffalo, New York in 1977. Friends asked me if I was going to stay after the semester ended to join in the Juneteenth celebration. I confessed my ignorance of this […]
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