African American Civil War Memorial

Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Reflections” on my most resent blog entry and the related posts, I discovered that people who don’t know I write ...

On National Public Radio (NPR) recently, the black writer that The Atlantic selected to explain why so few blacks study the Civil War decl...

American school children have been taught that President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves on January 1, 1863. However, Lincoln’ s Emancipati...

The United States Capitol Historical Society (USCHC) will host a symposium on “Emancipation during the Civil War” at the Capitol Visi...

This month, I had the pleasure of speaking at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. One of the attendees was an exceptionally brig...

The false reports often advanced by leading scholars have nothing to do with a conspiracy. They have everything to do with inaccura...

Commemoration, Celebration or Protest? Is the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War a time to celebrate or to commemorate? For the British...