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Search Results for: Civil War


Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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African American Civil War Soldiers: An Interview with John Clegg

May 3, 2018May 13, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount digital media

This month, I had the opportunity to speak with John Clegg, founder of African American Civil War Soldiers, a new website that is

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Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Activism, Civil War, Historical Memory, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

As monuments to white supremacists, slavery-defenders, and Confederate leaders continue to be torn down by politicians or by the people’s

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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War

September 22, 2017November 1, 2017 Karen Cook Bell Black women, emancipation, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

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Why are Trump Supporters Trying to Spark another Civil War?

October 19, 2016October 18, 2016 Patrick Rael Civil War, Donald Trump, slavery

As outrageous new events on the campaign trail assault us every day, it is becoming easy to accept the absurdities

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