Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...
“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...
Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...
"In the days after the Civil War, being a Black Republican meant something vastly different than today," an excerpt from “The Grift” reads. The book opens by highlighting how both parties ...
This collection contains 75 color prints produced for the Billiken Club by the Firecracker Press using modern computer assisted design techniques with manual printing Civil War, St. Louis Area A ...
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down ...