Image of bread riot in Richmond, 1863. From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Grand reaping, indeed.
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Treason in Defense of Slavery recruitment poster, Floyd County, Virginia, 1862
Ad from the Chicago Times, April 1865. This has long been my favorite ad in American history, but I didn't have any context until someone pointed me here. Too bad.
"Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house"
"Our Women and the War" Civil War nurses. Winslow Homer. From Harper’s Weekly, September 6, 1862.
Wounded soldiers after the Battle of the Wilderness, May 1864
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson Hamilton. You can read the historical society biography above, but we'll go ahead and expand on this a bit. Hamilton was born in 1815 in Huntsville, Alabama. The family was well enough off that Hamilton got to go...
For the latest LGM podcast, we were honored enough to have Kevin Waite of Durham University in the U.K. to talk about his new book West of Slavery: The Southern.
This is the grave of Robert Anderson. Born in 1805 near Louisville, Anderson was destined for a career in the military. His father, Richard Anderson, was the Marquis de Lafayette's.
I'm teaching two courses this term--Civil War and US Labor History. It's midterm day. Take these midterms. I will be grading them. No curve! HISTORY 365 MIDTERM, SPRING 2022 (for LGM readers, we are basically at the end of 1863, though there's a lot of...
This is the grave of Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Born in 1813 on a plantation in Montgomery County, Maryland Maria Rosetta O'Neale, grew up in relatively comfortable circumstances. Her father was.
I had the great pleasure of talking to Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University (quite a title!) about.