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A Fuller Black History of the Civil War

January 10, 2023January 7, 2023 Robert Greene II #AAIHSRoundtable, #FamiliesCivilWar, Resistance, slavery

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

Reading Practices, Civil War Archive, and the Black Family

January 9, 2023January 7, 2023 Brandi C. Brimmer #AAIHSRoundtable, #FamiliesCivilWar, Resistance, slavery

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

Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ Civil War’

January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 AAIHS Editors #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, 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’

Julia W. Garnet’s Civil War Activism

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Activism, Black women, Civil War, Julia Williams Garnet, mutual Aid

Throughout the American Civil War male proponents (Black and white) of mobilizing United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments viewed military

The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops

December 13, 2022December 28, 2022 Deborah Fountain race, slavery

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