From the 1870s to the 1930s, Vickburg routinely had three different Memorial Day observances: one for Confederate veterans; one for white Union veterans; and one for black Union veterans. Confederate Veterans April 26 was designated Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi. more »
Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 explores the efforts and insistence of African Americans to place emancipation and the end of slavery at the center of Civil War commemorative activities over the course of more »
Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862 by Richard B. McCaslin remains one of the most thorough treatments of this violent effort to bring in and subdue draft dodgers and perceived Unionists in an area of Texas that more »
Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 by Michael J. Pfeifer is an excellent work of both breadth and depth. Breadth, in that that he covers a wide span of time, more than 50 years – and a variety of geographic more »
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War is a small but powerful and revealing book. It takes place in the brief window of time when South Carolina and a few other Southern states had more »