Video: William A. Link talks to The Civil War Monitor
In an interview with The Civil War Monitor, William A. Link talks about the fall and rise of Atlanta as a New South city after the Civil War.
Archive of posts filed under the Civil War category.
William A. Link: Atlanta Rising After Sherman
Atlanta’s white boosters embraced a new narrative about the city’s past which wiped clean the slaveholding past and adopted a message of openness to investment by northern capitalists
Excerpt: Kennesaw Mountain, by Earl J. Hess
The assault of June 27 was a significant departure from Sherman’s mode of operations during the Atlanta campaign.
Michael T. Bernath: Confederate Teachers United in a War of Their Own
It was 150 years ago, on April 28, 1863 in Columbia, South Carolina, that nearly seventy delegates from six Confederate states met to form the South’s first and only national teachers’ organization, The Educational Association of the Confederate States of America.
Rod Andrew Jr.: When South Carolina Had Two Governors
Hampton sought to overthrow the corrupt Republican regime in Columbia and promised to protect black civil rights; Chamberlain had tried to bring reform and publicly dismissed Hampton’s promises to black voters.
Award-winning books from UNC Press (updated)
We are honored and delighted to share the news of some of our most recent award-winning books. Hope you’ll join us in congratulating these fine authors. And you may want to consider using some of these books in your classroom or kitchen. Click the cover images or book titles to go to the book page …
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Video: Ronald E. Butchart and the Freedmen’s Teacher Project
Ronald E. Butchart’s pathbreaking Freedmen’s Teacher Project compiles information on 11,600 teachers of freed people between 1862 and 1876.
Stanley Harrold: Illegal Immigrants, before the Civil War and Now
Fugitive slaves were the illegal immigrants of their time.
Excerpt: Two Captains from Carolina, by Bland Simpson
In an excerpt from Bland Simpson’s nonfiction novel Two Captains from Carolina, we get a glimpse of Moses Grandy’s early career as a boatman—the freedom he felt on the water and the opportunities that lay ahead.
Rod Andrew Jr.: Wade Hampton, One of the Last Confederate Generals to Surrender
Before the war began, few would have foreseen Hampton emerging as a die-hard Confederate. After President Abraham Lincoln called for troops to suppress the Southern rebellion, however, Hampton no longer hesitated.
Video: Bland Simpson reads from “Two Captains from Carolina”
In this video, Bland Simpson reads from his epic tale of race and war, “Two Captains from Carolina,” at UNC’s Bull’s Head Bookshop, November 13, 2012.
Excerpt: The Fire of Freedom, by David S. Cecelski
In years to come, he would gain a wider reputation as a moving, eloquent speaker and a fierce debater. But at no time of his life was he a more effective orator than in those first months of freedom on the North Carolina coast. The prodigal ex-slave was always at his best among other former slaves.
Video: Peter Carmichael “Behind the Lines” interview with Civil War Monitor
The Civil War Monitor interviews Peter Carmichael about the Civil War Institutes at Gettysburg College and the state of public history.
Excerpt: War on the Waters, by James M. McPherson
In this excerpt, McPherson discusses the blockade on the Confederacy and how if affected the definition of the Confederacy as insurrectionist or a legitimate nation.
Elizabeth Keckley in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”
Spielberg based more than 40 of his characters on historical figures; included in this group is Elizabeth Keckley, an enslaved woman whose 1868 book (Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House) UNC Press and the UNC Library republished last year through the DocSouth Books program.
