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Echoes of Reconstruction: Grant’s Bicentennial and His Changing Assessment
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Last month’s commemorations of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Ulysses S. Grant helped to place the general and president in the perspectives of the various decades when his life has been recalled. I was a boy during the 150th Anniversary of […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: President Grant Reorganized the White House As Soon As He Took Office
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as president on March 4, 1869. The immensely unpopular incumbent Andrew Johnson was finally deposed. The new President’s wife Julia Dent Grant described that day: General Grant left his residence…in his own carriage accompanied by some friends. […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Black History Month and the Erasure of Black History
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I remember taking my kids to visit Stone Mountain in Georgia around 1991. At the time, the “park” was a sort of Confederate Disneyland that mixed faux Civil War history with a whitewashed depiction of “Antebellum Life.” One central feature was a recreated […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: MLK on How the Dunning School Distorted the Echoes of Reconstruction
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Martin Luther King delivered a speech in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate the 100th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois. In his speech, King spoke about how the Dunning School had distorted the history of Reconstruction and how DuBois’s book Black […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: E. P. Alexander in Washington and the Lincoln Assassination
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog We all know that Ulysses S. Grant gave uncommonly generous terms of surrender to Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April, 1865. Rather than interning Lee’s men, he allowed them freedom to travel home. To Grant’s surprise, hundreds of […]
Read more...Echoes of the Lost Cause: Autumn of the Lost Cause
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog The last month has been one of dislocation for those of us devoted to studying the Civil War and Reconstruction. Nathan Bedford Forrest was literally relocated, or at least his remains were. The Sons of Confederate Veterans reburied the Confederate cavalryman at their […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: The USCT Continued to Serve After the War Was Over
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog July 18 was the 158th Anniversary of the assault of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Battery Wagner near Charleston. The assault was the most famous single military action by Black troops during the Civil War, and public awareness has only grown since […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: An Immigrant Defender of Black Freedom
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog June is Immigrant Heritage Month, and no American military conflict was more impacted by immigrants than the American Civil War. Roughly a quarter of the United States forces were immigrants, giving the Union a decided manpower advantage over the Confederacy. This month I […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Roundup of Recent Books
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just settled in with some newly published works. The last year has been a good one for books on […]
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