Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ 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’
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Civil War
Julia W. Garnet’s Civil War Activism
Throughout the American Civil War male proponents (Black and white) of mobilizing United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments viewed military
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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War
Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during
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The Consequences of USCT Soldiering
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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Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part II
Yesterday, Black Perspectives published part I of a Summer Books preview, covering a select number of books published in April
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