Civil War

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2020
  

  Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?

  It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  5/18/2020
  

  Did The South Win The Civil War?

  In this podcast, Historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses her new book "How The South Won The Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, And The Continuing Fight For The Soul Of America."

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• SOURCE: Gettysburg Connection
  5/15/2020
  

  Thavolia Glymph Appointed to Gettysburg Foundation Board

  Duke University Professor Thavolia Glymph joins the board of the foundation, which partners with the National Parks Service to preserve and promote historical sites near Gettysburg related to the Civil War battlefield and to the military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/18/2020
  

  "Rumors of War" Arrives in the South

  Kehinde Wiley's new sculpture serves as a rejoinder to the statues of Confederate leaders along Richmond's Monument Avenue. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Herald
  

  Deciding Final Resting Place for Nathan Bedford Forrest

  The bodies of the former slave owner and reputed Ku Klux Klan member and his wife remain buried in Memphis, TN, but they could be moved to Columbia, SC.

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• SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courier
  5/13/2020
  

  On this Day in 1862: Robert Smalls's Daring Escape from Charleston

  Today marks the anniversary of one of the most dramatic episodes in the Civil War--Robert Smalls's escape from slavery in a stolen Confederate naval ship.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  Yes, John Wilkes Booth did Speak Those Notorious Words At Lincoln's Last Speech

  by Ken Lawrence

  There is ample evidence Booth declared his intention--complete with racist invective-- to kill Lincoln after hearing the President state his willingness to make black Union soldiers citizens. The quote helps keep Booth's motives in focus for students of history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  4/30/2020
  

  Did Lincoln Take his Cues From Congress?

  Historian Allen C. Guelzo reviews Fergus Bordewich's new book "Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America," which argues that the 37th and 38th Congresses had a bigger role in the abolition of slavery than the 16th president.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  5/3/2020
  

  Trump and Lincoln Are Opposite Kinds of Presidents

  When historians rank the worst presidents in American history, indecision and inaction in the face of crisis are common attributes. Until now, most of the worst served before or after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: The Dispatch
  4/26/2020
  

  There’s a Question My Confederate Ancestors Taught Me To Ask

  by David French

  Tribalism affected both abolitionists and Confederates during the Civil War. How does it impact modern politics?

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  4/18/2020
  

  What the Civil War Can Teach Us About COVID-19

  by Jason Phillips

  "Like Civil War Americans, we will mourn loved ones who perished in the crisis and face the future with a more complicated view of time." writes Jason Phillips.

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Losing Women—and Women’s History—in Times of Crisis

  by Megan Kate Nelson

  Women and all of their visible and invisible labor are at the center of the COVID crisis, and they are finding their way into news coverage of the pandemic. The stories of women living and suffering and dying throughout history, however, have largely fallen by the wayside.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  4/14/2020
  

  Donald Trump Wants To Fight Coronavirus As A ‘Wartime President.’ He Can’t.

  The war metaphor is not only inapt to apply to a viral pandemic, it is dangerous. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/13/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Will Force Us to Change How We Mourn

  by Drew Gilpin Faust

  Can we retain our humanity when we can’t say goodbye?

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• 4/19/2020
  

  An Interview with Fergus Bordewich, Author of “Congress at War”

  by James Thornton Harris

  My work on Congress during the Compromise of 1850 showed me how much wonderful untapped and dramatic material there was to be found in the battles fought on the floor of Congress.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/10/2020
  

  "How the South Won the Civil War" Review: One Side Kept Fighting

  At the outset of the war, the great majority of Northerners wanted to reunify the country more or less on prewar terms.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/10/2020
  

  ‘We Were Always Men’

  by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  One hundred and fifty years ago, Frederick Douglass understood the link between voting rights and manhood for African-Americans.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/7/2020
  

  How the Civil War Changed the Way Americans Thought About Economic Inequality

  by Daniel R. Mandell

  As the Civil War became a campaign to end slavery, some leading Republicans envisioned using confiscation to reshape the aristocratic South into a more equal society in terms of property ownership and power.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  4/6/2020
  

  Mississippi Governor Declares ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ During Coronavirus Pandemic

  Reeves has long had ties to pro-Confederate organizations.

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• SOURCE: 1843 Magazine
  4/2/2020
  

  Confederacy in the 'Hood

  For two-and-a-half years, Benjamin Israel, an African-American Orthodox Jew, attended every meeting of the city council in Hollywood, Florida, to talk about street names.