Here’s historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage of the University of North Carolina giving a lecture on how the Civil War is seen today. He advances the case that the war’s status is transitioning from memory to history. He provides evidence that as demographics change and as the war recedes more into the timeline and smaller percentages […]
The citation for this case is 27 Fed. Cas. 284, Case No. 15,941. This case is from September of 1862 in the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The judge presiding in this case was Federal Judge Samuel Treat. The case involved the seizure of contraband goods being sent into Tennessee. Judge Treat […]
This is Nelson Lankford’s book about the fall of Richmond in 1865. This is an excellent book. Lankford did prodigious research and weaved a mountain of facts into a smooth, lucid, and cogent narrative. In setting the stage and putting the book’s main topic into historical context, he tells us how Virginia came to be part […]
The citation for this case is 76 US [9 Wallace] 197. James Hickman lived in Northern Alabama and was an ardent proconfederate. US troops occupied the area for a time, and after the confederates regained control his fellow citizens accused him of changing to be a Unionist. He was tried in a confederate court for […]
This is a book by Warren Lee Goss, who started out as a private in the US Engineers, was captured on the Peninsula and later exchanged, then discharged. After spending a year working as a clerk, he reenlisted and was a sergeant in the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. You can download and read it for […]
Here’s Prof. James Oakes on Lincoln’s political actions against slavery. The video’s description reads, “James Oakes talked about Abraham Lincoln’s relationship with abolitionist movements and antislavery politics. Mr. Oakes spoke about the abolitionist movements of the day and how they helped transform a politically cautious Lincoln into an emancipator.” This is an excellent presentation. http://www.c-span.org/video/?326989-1/lincolns-antislavery-politics
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