The Reconstruction Era

Right off of I-95 in Rye, New York lies a forgotten cemetery where for 120 years local African American families had buried their dead. The…

Erik Larson, one of the most popular history writers over the last half century, has his new book on the crisis over Fort Sumter debut…

Frederick Douglass stands at the top of a stair leading into the New-York Historical Society. The statue was installed in 2011 just as the United…

People viewing this week’s monument might think they recognize it as the First Bull Run monument, but they would be wrong. This is the Second…

Three books were awarded the Pulitzer Prize today that had to do with the Civil War, the Antebellum, and Reconstruction, one each in History, Biography,…

Mount Auburn Cemetery was one of the first “Rural Cemeteries” in the United States. Cemeteries before the 19th Century were adjoining churches or on available…

The letters of Thomas Jefferson Withers to James Hammond are a source for finding out the attitudes of elite Southern men before the Civil War….

The Washington Post reviews Erik Larson’s new book The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil…

Now that the Spring has sprung, I am going to take you to some monuments away from the cities. I went to a conference at…

New York State has announced that it is giving out a grant to the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State to start developing a…