Civil War

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• SOURCE: Substack
  11/20/2022
  

  Push Confederates Out of Gettysburg for Good

  by Kevin M. Levin

  Why are the forces that fought to preserve slavery, and who invaded the free state of Pennsylvania and kidnapped free Black Americans into slavery in 1863, allowed to march in Gettysburg's Remembrance Day parade? 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  10/29/2022
  

  Michigan Gubernatorial Candidate Steeped in Disinformation About Parties' Roles

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Focusing on the tension between hierarchy and equality rather than party affiliation helps to clarify why a candidate of the "Party of Lincoln" can make white power rants on public media. 

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• SOURCE: Nashville Scene
  10/10/2022
  

  What Freedom Meant to Black People in Nashville During the Civil War

  Incoming AHA President Thavolia Glymph discussed how the actions of Black refugees who moved behind Union lines at Fort Negley and other locations changed the meaning of the war and ensured that it would ultimately abolish slavery. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/14/2022
  

  If American History Needs Heroes, Why Aren't We Teaching about the Abolitionists?

  by Stephanie Coontz

  Those who feel discomfort over studying the history of abolitionism do so because of their refusal to build on the work of an interracial group of American visionaries. 

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• 8/7/2022
  

  Healing a Divided Nation

  by Carole Adrienne

  From specialized trauma care to emergency transportation to board certification of physicians, when we encounter the medical system today, we are experiencing Civil War medicine. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/14/2022
  

  What the Antebellum Period Tells Us about the Coming Battles Over Abortion

  by Kate Masur

  "The history of the 19th century reminds us that arguments for states’ rights, or for federal power, have no intrinsic political or moral valence."

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• 6/19/2022
  

  "Oh, We Knowed What Was Goin’ On": The Myths (and Lies) of Juneteenth

  by Clyde W. Ford

  After the myths of Juneteenth are stripped away, the day symbolizes the incompleteness of the promise of emancipation. 

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• 5/25/2022
  

  A Century After its Dedication, the Lincoln Memorial's Meaning is Still Contested

  by Patrick Malone

  From its dedication to the present, the meaning and legacy of Lincoln and his memorial have been the focus of struggle between those who see Lincoln as the savior of the Union and those who claim him as the great emancipator.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/2022
  

  A Neighborly Civil War in Virginia over Street Names

  Leaders of a group of suburban Virginia homeowners who want to change the Confederate-related street names in their community have been accused of being puppets of George Soros and threatened. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2022
  

  Lies We Teach to Kids about the Reconstruction Era

  by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

  "The narrative of Reconstruction perpetuated by many state social studies standards is part of a longer and larger struggle over the past, the latest episode of which can be seen in a rash of new restrictions on what teachers can tell young people about our nation’s history.

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• 3/6/2022
  

  How Lincoln and Douglass Joined Forces for Freedom

  by Jonathan W. White

  Lincoln's discussions with Frederick Douglass should make clear the difference between the president's public statements and his inner convictions on emancipation. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/2022
  

  New Book Challenges Civil War Myths in Maryland

  Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker's book assembles essays from historians who undermine myths of Maryland history shaped by Confederate sympathizers. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  1/17/2022
  

  Imagining Another Civil War is a Lost Cause (But That's Not Stopping People)

  by Richard Kreitner

  Journalist Stephen Marche presents scenarios under which the historical tensions among groups of Americans could openly rupture, but reviewer Richard Kreitner thinks some are unlikely, and don't grapple with the way that American institutions are implicated in the crisis of democracy.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/7/2022
  

  Our Last Insurrectionist President

  by Daniel N. Gullotta

  John Tyler's post-presidential second act, as a secessionist, yielded something worse than historical condemnation: irrelevance. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  1/6/2022
  

  How Twitter Explains the Civil War (and Vice Versa)

  by Ariel Ron

  Violence in the Capitol a year ago called to mind events like Preston Brooks's brutal caning of Charles Sumner. But a closer look shows that, like today, antebellum politics were disrupted and made volatile by revolutions in communciation technology. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/16/2021
  

  Beware Prophecies of Civil War

  by Fintan O'Toole

  Northern Ireland's history shows how "premonitions of civil war served not as portents to be heeded, but as a warrant for carnage," as a seemingly inevitable mass conflict justifies and normalizes smaller-scale political violence as an everyday phenomenon.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  12/6/2021
  

  The 1860 Crittenden Compromise Aimed to Stop Civil War while Preserving Slavery

  John J. Crittenden hoped that restoring the Missouri Compromise and other measures to stop slavery's expansion would prevent slaveholders from following through on threats to secede. Abraham Lincoln wasn't buying it. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/6/2021
  

  3 Black Soldiers Executed by the Confederacy to be Honored by Virginia

  A Confederate private's diary casually described the execution of three members of the U.S. Colored Troops near Culpeper, Virginia. Today the work of Howard Lambert and his Freedom Foundation will honor the anonymous soldiers. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  11/3/2021
  

  Lee's Fault: On Allen Guelzo's Biography

  by John Reeves

  A reviewer concludes that Allen Guelzo's new biography succeeds in evaluating Robert E. Lee's military career but misses in its assessment of his relationship to slavery and his legacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/2/2021
  

  Wilentz: New Book Says Jefferson Davis was Right About the Constitution. What About Lincoln?

  by Sean Wilentz

  Noah Feldman's new books says that, in 1861, Jefferson Davis was right about the Constitution's sanction of slavery, and only the rupture of the Civil War could amend and reset the document. Sean Wilentz disagrees.