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Book Review: A House Built by Slaves
A House Built by Slaves offers a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, as seen through the eyes – the usually-but-not-uniformly-sympathetic eyes – of black visitors to the White House. The narrative also combines accounts of these visits with accounts of the … Continue reading
Maine at War June 2022 blog posts
In June 2022 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from cold-hearted elected officials to a “what if” 20th-century TV game show involving six Civil War celebrities, plus a look at two special monuments in Middleburg. June 1, 2022: … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, 15th New York Battery, 18th Maine Infantry Regiment, 19th Maine Infantry Regiment, 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st Maine Veteran Infantry Regiment, 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, 24th Maine Infantry Regiment, 43rd U.S. Colored Troops, 4th Maine Infantry Regiment, 6th Maine Battery, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, Abraham Bryan, Alden D. Chase, Aldie, Belfast, Belfast City Greys, Belle Boyd, Blue Ridge, Brian Swartz, Bridget Newenham, Bridled Veterans, Bud Collyer, Bull Run Mountains, Catoctin Mountain, Cemetery Ridge, Cherryfield, Chris Wilson, Codori Farm, David Tucker, Elvira Newenham, Emmitsburg Road, Emulos Small, Fort Riley, Frederic A. Hodsdon, Frederick Douglass, Fredericksburg, Freeman McGilvery, Gallops Island, George A. Custer, George B. McClellan, Hannibal Hamlin, Henry House Hill, Henry J. Hunt, Henry W. Cunningham, Horatio H. Carter, Horses and Mules Memorial, Isaac C. Abbott, Israel Washburn Jr., James H. Newenham, James Wakefield, JEB Stuart, John Day Smith, John Hodsdon, John Mosby Highway, John Smith, John W. Haley, Julia Ward Howe, Lewiston, Litchfield, Livia Angier, Lizzie Baker, Maine at War, Maine State Archives, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Marye's Heights, Middleburg, Mt. Defiance Park, Narraguagus, National Sporting Library and Museum, New Brunswick, Nicholas Newenham, Patrick Hart, Peirces’ Hall, Petersburg, r Silas M. Fuller, Republican Journal, Richard S. Ayer, Rockland, Shenandoah Valley, Silas Adams, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, St. David’s, Steamboat Landing, Steve Bunker, Stockton Springs, Studio 54, Tessa Pullan, The Plains Road, Thomas H. Marshall, To Tell the Truth, Upperville, Virginia Museum of History and Culture, William H. Fogler, William H. Simpson, William Hart, William Newenham, William O. Poor, Winfield Scott Hancock
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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 … Continue reading
Robert E. Lee as a “Fallen Leader”?
I’m working on a volume for the Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series on “Fallen Leaders.” As we did with last year’s symposium, the book considers leaders who not only fell, dead or wounded, on the battlefield but those who … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Confederate, Memory
Tagged Allen Guelzo, Frederick Douglass, Jubal Early, Robert E. Lee, treason, Ty Seidule, W.E.B. DuBois
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Book Review: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass, Introduction by Scott C. Williamson Mercer University Press, 2021, $16.00 paperback Reviewed by David T. Dixon Frederick Douglass hardly needs an introduction to students of the American … Continue reading
Paddle Along With Frederick Douglass
Adapted from a news release… Civil War Trails, Inc. has teamed up with the Caroline Office of Tourism, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the Caroline County Historical Society to update three of the Civil War Trails sites in … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Absalom, Adam Domby, book reviews, civil rights, Congress at War, Constant Lecorge, Edward Ball, Fergus Bordewich, Fred Ogden, Frederick Douglass, Kate Masur, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Life of a Klansman, Michael Gorra, New Orleans, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee and Me, Slavery, The False Cause, The Reconstruction Era Blog, The Sadddest Words, Ty Seidule, Until Justice Be Done, white supremacy, William Faulkner
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Echoes of Reconstruction: When Frederick Douglas Stood Up to Anti-Asian Violence and Exclusion
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Americans’ fear of non-white, non-Christian immigrants began in 1848 with the arrival of the first ship full of Chinese in San Francisco Bay. The Chinese came to wash the clothes … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs, Reconstruction
Tagged 14th Amendment, Andrew Johnson, Burlingame Treaty, California, Chinese, Chinese Americans, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Echoes of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, German Americans, Know Nothings, Patrick Young, racism, Reconstruction Era Blog, William Seward
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On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (conclusion)
part four of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Charlotte Scott, Counter Reconstruction, Frank J. Scaturro, Frederick Douglass, Freedmen's Memorial, George Thomas, Hamburg Massacre, Hiram Revels, John A. Bingham, John Mercer Langston, Joseph Rainey, Lincoln's Second Inaugural, Mary McLeod Bethune, Monuments, On-Monuments-Never-Surrender-to-Confederates, Queen Elizabeth II, Ulysses S. Grant
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On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (part three)
part three of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Reconstruction
Tagged 1619 Project, Alexander Stephens, Bill de Blasio, Confederate monuments, Cornerstone Speech, Dred Scott Decision, Dunning School, Frank J. Scaturro, Frederick Douglass, I Have a Dream speech, Jamelle Bouie, Juneteenth, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr., Monuments, Nikole Hannah-Jones, On-Monuments-Never-Surrender-to-Confederates, racisim, Reconstruction, Roger B. Taney, Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson
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