Statement by US Historians on Recently Released Confederate ...

What Twenty-First-Century Historians Have Said about the Causes ...

Recent work on the topic reveals two widely acknowledged truths: that slavery was at the heart of the sectional conflict and that there is more to learn about ...

Lost Cause Myth - The Inclusive Historian's Handbook

The Confederate experience should continue to be discussed. After all, the Confederacy was not an exceptional element in American history ...

Historians respond to John F. Kelly's Civil War remarks

“This is profound ignorance, that's what one has to say first, at least of pretty basic things about the American historical narrative,” Blight ...

Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War - National Park Service

The new [Confederate] constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery ...

BU Historian Answers: Are We Headed for Another Civil War?

Mueller report has Democrats and Republicans feuding—just how bad could it get? a monument showing the line between the union and confederacy. The line that ...

Trump's history of defending Confederate 'heritage' despite political ...

President Donald Trump shared his administration's position after the Army issued a statement saying top military leaders were "open" to the ...

Out of War, a New Nation | National Archives

of Congress) The Civil War had a greater impact on American society and the polity than any other event in the country's history. It was ...

Corner Stone Speech - Teaching American History

Stephens passionately declared that the Confederacy was explicitly founded on slavery and white supremacy.

A Mistaken Form of Trust: Ken Burns's The Civil War At Thirty

Many who courageously fought to defeat slavery went on to annihilate entire native American communities and literally steal their land. We need ...

United Daughters of the Confederacy | Historical – Educational ...

It is our sincere wish that our great nation and its citizens will continue to let its fellow Americans, the descendants of Confederate soldiers, honor the ...

The Consequences of Union Victory, 1865 - Office of the Historian

Union victory also ensured continuing support for the international abolishment of racial slavery. As the Confederacy collapsed, U.S. leaders were able to shift ...

Was the Civil War a “War of Choice?” - National Park Service

As further proof of his opinion that the Civil War was a conflict of choice, Goldfield includes this statement: “And what of the former slaves, ...

Memorial Day history - National Cemetery Administration

The message conveyed by this largely Black assembly honoring U.S. troops on land previously occupied by wealthy White southerners expressed the same message as ...

American History: The Civil War and Reconstruction: Aftermath of ...

Only high rank Confederates such as army officers and government officials would be exept from a full pardon for their role in the conflict. The ...

John Kelly, the Civil War and America's Textbook Debate | TIME

As many have observed, Kelly's statement to news commentator Laura Ingraham that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War” is ...

Reconstruction | Definition, Summary, Timeline & Facts | Britannica

Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the ... By 1870 all the former Confederate states had been readmitted to the Union ...

Opinion | Trump might go down in history as the last president of the ...

It should have happened 155 years ago, when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, but maybe — just maybe — the Civil ...

Journal of American History - OAH

Published four times a year by the Organization of American Historians, the ... Recent special issues include “Historians and the Carceral State” and ...

One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed ...

... Civil War, people recently freed from ... Confederate soldiers who had died in the single bloodiest military conflict in American history.

Historians Have Said about the Causes of Disunion: A Civil War - jstor

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Organization of American Historians. ... American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Dir tions ...