CIVIL WAR MEMORY

I’ve been blogging here at Civil War Memory since 2005. Many of you have been with me for a good chunk of that time. It’s been an incredible experience that has enriched my life in ways that ...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/03/05/moving-to-substack/

Bradley R. Clampitt, Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Louisiana State University Press, 2022). Louis E. DeCaro, Jr., The Untold Story of Shields Green: ...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/03/05/new-to-the-civil-war-memory-library-03-05/

Like many of you I watched HISTORY’s 3-night documentary about Abraham Lincoln. The previews suggested that it would adopt the standard format for recent documentaries that includes dramatic sc...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/02/23/another-lincoln-documentary/

Neo-Confederates and others love to trot out the Black Confederate myth during Black History Month as a means to promote their twisted idea of diversity. Of course, it has nothing to do with dive...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/02/19/hulk-lawyer-black-confederate/

Of all the efforts on the part of state legislatures to regulate the teaching of history, the most baffling is the attempt to ensure that our students do not experience feelings of discomfort. It...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/02/16/confronting-the-past-should-make-us-uncomfortable/

Seth Bruggeman, Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022). Laura F. Edwards, Only the Clothes on Her Back:...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/02/13/new-to-the-civil-war-memory-library-02-13/

It seems like every day I wake up to news of a state having passed legislation or debating legislation that seeks to protect students from being exposed to certain aspects of the American past. W...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/02/09/the-kids-are-alright/

Last week I had the pleasure of once again assisting the research staff at PBS’s Finding Your Roots with interpreting a document that relates to my scholarship on the Black Confederate myth and...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/02/04/former-camp-slaves-and-systemic-racism-in-the-jim-crow-south/

Today is the official publication day for the paperback edition of Searching for Black Confederates from the University of North Carolina Press. The decision to wait over two years to issue a pap...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/02/01/searching-for-black-confederates-out-in-paperback/

If you had asked me in high school what I wanted to do with my life, the last thing I would have said was a history teacher. I had very little interest in the subject in high school, which was pa...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/01/29/standing-up-for-history-education/

I’ve been pretty consistent in my response to accusations that our history classrooms have been turned into forums for the teaching of Critical Race Theory and other so-called dangerous ideas. ...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/01/27/a-better-response-to-the-critical-race-theory-critics/

The views expressed in this blog post are my own and do not represent the National Council for History Education, with which I am currently serving as a member of the board of directors. We could...

https://cwmemory.com/2022/01/25/florida-county-cancels-civil-rights-education-workshop/