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The Consequences of USCT Soldiering

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Civil War, Pension System, reparations, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troop, USCI, USCT

Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An

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The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments

February 2, 2022February 1, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. racism, South

On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander

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The Familial Fight Against Racism

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Holly Pinheiro antebellum, Civil War, Gender, labor, Pennsylvania, United States Colored Troops, USCT

The Civil War remains one of the most discussed and published historical topics. Often, public and academic discourse on

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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

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Black Women and Civil War Pensions

September 1, 2021August 28, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Black women, Gender, Resistance

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

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