I‘ve been thinking quite a bit about the images of slave rebellions and miscegenation that shaped the world view of white Southerners throughout the antebellum period. In the case of [...]
So, it looks like I am reviewing John F. Schmutz’s new book on the Crater for H-Net. I should apologize for the cheap shot I took the other week when [...]
This post originally appeared in December 2005, just one month into my blogging experiment. I’ve enjoyed Eric Wittenberg’s excellent series of posts on his experience researching and publishing Civil War [...]
This encyclopedia entry is slated for publication in the African-American National Biography series which is being edited by Henry L. Gates and Evelyn Higginbotham and published by Oxford University Press. [...]
This is probably the most famous painting of the Crater and it was completed in 1869 by John Elder. Elder was born in 1833 and studied under Daniel Huntington in [...]
