Search Results for: Civil War

Freedom, Race, and Desertion in America’s Civil War

May 9, 2016May 8, 2016 Guest Poster Civil War, freedom

This is a guest post by Jonathan Lande, winner of the 2016 Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize. This annual

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Did abolitionism cause the Civil War?

August 29, 2015August 30, 2015 Patrick Rael

I recently came across a review on a conservative website of Thomas Fleming’s A Disease in the Public Mind: A

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Love and the Civil War

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015 Christopher Bonner

  Last Sunday, I stood on a Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk, about midway between the U.S. Capitol and the White House,

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Integrating the Baltimore Riot into a Civil War History Class, An Improvised Lesson

May 2, 2015May 4, 2015 Noelle Trent Baltimore, Civil War, teaching

This past week was a tumultuous week in the Baltimore – Washington area. What began as an ordinary week became

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Online Forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement

April 10, 2023April 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

April 11–18, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on

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