The Economist

Six books to understand the civil war and slavery in America

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...
Prescott eNews

And They Died by the Tens of Thousands – American Renaissance

African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., $30.54 ...
Grand Island Independent

'A powerful story': How freed slaves helped shape Virginia after the Civil War

In April 1868, Virginia produced a new constitution as part of its efforts to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. The document was drafted by a group of 104 delegates elected from around ...
Commercial Appeal

Archaeologists unearth 100+ year old tool maybe used by freed slaves in Mississippi

A post-Civil War era brick kiln, likely built by freed slaves, has been unearthed in Marshall County, Mississippi. The kiln was discovered by archaeologists surveying land for a planned highway ...
insider.si.edu

How the slaves saw the Civil War : recollections of the war through the WPA slave narratives / Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach

Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...
The San Bernardino Sun

San Bernardino slave helped 14 others gain freedom before Civil War

Juneteenth remembers the moment in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned of the Emancipation Proclamation and were belatedly given freedom two months after the Civil War’s end. Southern California ...