Special thanks to Robert Pomerenk, who took these photos of an exhibit on black Confederates in the Old Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi. It looks like a relatively old exhibit that […]
Black Confederate Soldiers has more of a professional look to it, but the information and commentary provided is as misleading as anything you will find online. You will find all […]
This is great. In 1993 Professor Edward C. Smith addressed a Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting on the subject of black Confederates. Unfortunately, only the first ten minutes of his […]
Update: Since writing this post I’ve had to push the time line back a bit to the mid-1970s. Click here. Seem like a strange question? What I am wondering is […]
Well, my summer has officially started and it promises to be quite busy. I have a couple of talks to give, a number of writing projects to finish, and somewhere […]
Yesterday I briefly touched on a story out of Valdese, North Carolina involving Reverend Herman White, who was asked to address a group of students as part of the area’s […]
The Internet can be a wonderful source for reliable and important information on historical subjects. It can also be, and often is, a source for misleading and damaging information about […]
Looks like the Sons of Confederate Veterans is amending their Constitution. You can read the proposed amendments here, but one in particular struck me as kind of funny: Proposed Constitutional […]
A group of historians and other concerned citizens recently lobbied the commissioners of Union County to “recogniz[e] the contributions of 10 black Confederate pensioners, known as colored troops during the […]
I am slowly gathering materials for my next book project on “black Confederates” that I agreed to write for Westholme Publishing. A few weeks ago I ordered the two volumes […]