Search Results for: Civil War

Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South

May 24, 2023May 23, 2023 Ryan W. Keating Civil War, Freedman's Bureau, Pensions, reconstruction, Welfare

The policing of Black bodies has become an increasingly visible part of the American landscape, shining light on centuries-long violent

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Correcting the Anti-Black Civil War Commemorative Landscape in Harrisburg, PA

April 27, 2023April 25, 2023 Hilary Green Civil War, Commemoration, Memory, Pennsylvania, USCT

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Dedicated during the national reckoning of

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Black Burials and Civil War Forgetting in Olustee, Florida

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 Barbara A. Gannon #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMilitaryFamilies, racism

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Like so many Civil War battlefields,

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Online Forum–Black Civil War and Public Memory

April 21, 2023April 20, 2023 AAIHS Editors Black Civil War, Black Family, Civil War, Memory, military

April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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“The Families’ Civil War”: An Author’s Response

January 13, 2023January 9, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Author Response, Black Family, Civil War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Even though the Civil

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