Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Robert K.D. Colby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, to discuss his new book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South ...
Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...
A book by a local historian and prolific writer is the subject of a free event Sunday, June 28, at the Barns of Rose Hill in ...
Shortly after Robert Smalls met with President Abraham Lincoln, War Secretary Edwin Stanton allowed 5,000 former slaves to fight for the Union Army during the Civil War. (Wikimedia Commons) As ...
For years, Southern apologists have sought to downplay the role of slavery in the Civil War, framing the “irrepressible conflict” as an issue of states’ rights. That claim flies in the face of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a ...
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The history of Juneteenth, the holiday that celebrates the end of slavery
In June 1865, the South's slaves had already technically been free for more than two years thanks to the Emancipation ...
When news broke that New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu wanted to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee from his place at the center of what is known today as Lee Circle, it set off a firestorm of ...
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