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Wayne Pease, Jr. Went Looking for Black Confederates and Found What He Was Looking For
10+ hour, 59+ min ago (721+ words) My curiosity got the best of me, so I went ahead and purchased a copy of Wayne Pease, Jr’s book Searching for Black Confederates and Finding Them. I mean, how many writers are recipients of a book-length rebuttal of one…...
Taking Robert Gould Shaw On the Road
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (393+ words) We are just a few weeks away from the release of A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw [UNC Press/Barnes & Noble/Bookshop] and I couldn’t be more excited. To be completely honest, I am…...
Covering Up A Confederate Statue's Insidious Lie
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (376+ words) The Lost Cause narrative has led generations of white Americans astray in their understanding of the Civil War and the Confederacy. Among its most insidious threads is the one that recognizes and honors the South’s “loyal slaves.” It’s been depicted…...
Searching For Black Confederates Debunked?
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (330+ words) Today I came across a book-length rebuttal to my 2019 book Searching For Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth. The author is Wayne Pease, Jr and the book is titled…wait for it…Searching For Black Confederates and Finding…...
The Strange Career of Ben "Cooter" Jones
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (983+ words) If you were a kid growing up in the late 1970s, there is a good chance that you watched “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Among its cast of colorful characters was Ben Jones, who played “Cooter” Davenport, the sidekick mechanic of cousins…...
What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia
1+ week, 1+ day ago (612+ words) One of the things that I was impressed with in reading Judge Michael Urbanski’s opinion in Virginia State Conference NAACP v. County School Board of Shenandoah County is his use of expert testimony from historians. Yesterday I reported that Judge…...
Stonewall Jackson High School Loses in Federal Court
1+ week, 2+ day ago (535+ words) A federal judge just ruled that Shenandoah County’s school board broke the law when it brought back Confederate names for two of its schools. Judge Michael Urbanski found that the 2024 decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,…...
Let's Talk About the History of Reconstruction
1+ week, 3+ day ago (294+ words) On Monday I put forward five books about the history of Reconstruction for consideration for the next meeting of this newsletter’s book club. I asked you to choose one from the list. Thanks to everyone who responded. Here is the…...
Two Williams College Friends and the War They Didn't Fight
1+ week, 4+ day ago (955+ words) Today I want to share the latest addition to my personal archive. The item includes two letters written by Joseph Haskell Feltch of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Charles W. Stone of Groton, Massachusetts. The first letter was written in 1862, and the second…...
Next Up For the Civil War Memory Book Club
1+ week, 6+ day ago (338+ words) Thanks to all of you who attended last night’s book club. We had about 30 people show up to talk about Heather Cox Richardson’s book, How the South Won the Civil War. Just as I anticipated, it was a spirited and engaging…...