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Portraits of John Adams (left) and John Quincy Adams (right).

The Fall of the House of Adams: Charles Francis Adams Jr. on Race and Public Service

A look inside America’s first political dynasty.
by Douglas R. Egerton via We're History on November 25, 2019

Full Pardon and Amnesty

Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.
by Geoff Davidson via The Bitter Southerner on September 6, 2019
Statue of Ulysses Grant

Moral Courage and the Civil War

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.
by Elizabeth D. Samet via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019

From the Battlefield to 'Little Women'

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.
by Jennifer Wilson via New York Review of Books on August 28, 2019
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Civil War Memory

Historical understandings and myths about the Civil War's causes, meanings, and legacies still shape American culture and national discourse about the country's future.
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The Civil War and the Black West

On the integrated Union regiments composed of white, black, and native men who fought in the Civil War's western theatre.
by William Loren Katz via HNN on August 18, 2019
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Freedom's Fortress

Exploring Virginia’s Fort Monroe – the place where slavery began in British North America, and where, during the Civil War, it began to unravel.
via Future Of America's Past on August 8, 2019
African American re-enactor dressed as a Confederate.
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How the Myth of Black Confederates Was Born

And how a handful of black Southerners helped perpetuate it after the Civil War.
by Kevin M. Levin via Made By History on July 17, 2019

Doctors Demanded Male Nurses During the Civil War. Clara Barton Defied Them.

The extraordinary woman known as the ‘Angel of the Battlefield’ eventually founded the Red Cross.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on May 6, 2019

Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary

The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Smithsonian on April 23, 2019
A drawing of Civil War soldiers toasting each other around a table as death, in the form of a skeleton, waits outside the tent (c. 1863).

Understanding Trauma in the Civil War South

Suicide during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins, Diane Miller Sommerville via Nursing Clio on March 20, 2019

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.
by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019

War Happens in Dark Places, Too

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Contingent on March 3, 2019
Abraham Lincoln visiting soldiers encamped at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam in October, 1982.

Abraham Lincoln’s Foreign Policy Helped Win the Civil War

Why Lincoln’s "one war at a time" doctrine saved the Union.
by Kevin Peraino, Alex Ward via Vox on February 18, 2019

The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal

The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.
by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on February 13, 2019
Two men and a boy in GAR uniforms

The Grave and the Gay: The Civil War on the Gilded Age Lecture Circuit

In the years after the Civil War, lecturers like E. L. Allen regaled audiences with heartwarming and dramatic tales of battle.
by James Marten via Muster on December 28, 2018

The Electoral Politics of "Migrant Caravans"

To alleviate voters' fears during the Civil War, Northern governors refused to open their states to formerly enslaved refugees.
by Amy Murrell Taylor via Muster on December 18, 2018

Harriet Tubman’s Daring Civil War Raid

Abolishing slavery wasn’t enough. Someone had to actually free the enslaved people of the American south.
by Tristan J. Tarwater, Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on December 17, 2018
Gettysburg cyclorama building.
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Cycloramas: The Virtual Reality of the 19th Century

Immersive displays brought 19th century spectators to far-off places and distant battles. The way they portrayed history, however, was often inaccurate.
by Allison C. Meier, Charles G. Markantes, Michael Cunningham via JSTOR Daily on December 16, 2018
Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.
by David W. Blight, Martha Hodes via Public Books on November 26, 2018
Bearded civil war soldier.

Who’s Behind That Beard?

Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs.
by Erica X. Eisen via Slate on November 15, 2018

At 63, I Threw Away My Prized Portrait of Robert E. Lee

I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot—but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.
by Stanley A. McChrystal via The Atlantic on October 23, 2018
Painting of the mouth of a cave.

Down in the Hole: Outlaw Country and Outlaw Culture

Country music has often stood, as it were, with one foot in and one foot out of the cave.
by Max Fraser via Southern Cultures on October 16, 2018
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Stop Worrying About a Second Civil War

Predictions of society coming undone reflect deep anxieties over the divisions roiling the country, but these professed fears about our future actually provide hope.
by Jason Phillips via Made By History on October 12, 2018
Drawing of a drag ball in the Civil War.

Drag Balls of the Civil War

Queerness has always existed — even on the Civil War battlefield.
by Levi Hastings, Dorian Alexander via The Nib on October 5, 2018
James Longstreet's daughter visits his statue at Gettysburg.
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The Missing Statues That Expose the Truth About Confederate Monuments

Why Confederacy supporters erased the legacy of one its most accomplished soldiers.
by Kevin Waite via Made By History on August 29, 2018

Tattooing in the Civil War Was a Hedge Against Anonymous Death

Hidden tattoos captured soldiers' pride and patriotism, but also had a practical use.
by Aïda Amer, Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on August 13, 2018

Neither Snow nor Rain nor Secession? Mail Delivery and the Experience of Disunion in 1861

Whether it ran smoothly or ground to a halt, the mail offered daily reminders that the hand of war touched every aspect of life.
by Michael E. Woods via Muster on June 26, 2018

Inked Irishmen

Irish tattoos in 1860s New York.
by Damian Shiels via Irish in the American Civil War on May 23, 2018
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One of the 19th Century’s Most Important Documents Was Recently Discovered

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.
by Megan Kate Nelson via Made By History on May 22, 2018
United States Colored Troops.

African American Civil War Soldiers

Why an historian is compiling a digital database of the military records of 200,000+ black Union soldiers.
by John Clegg, Guy Emerson Mount via Black Perspectives on May 3, 2018
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