Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ Civil War’
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’
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Civil War
Julia W. Garnet’s Civil War Activism
Throughout the American Civil War male proponents (Black and white) of mobilizing United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments viewed military
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The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops
By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000
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On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences
The experiences of enslaved women and girls in the wars of the United States has garnered increased scholarly attention, most
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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War
Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during
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