Southern Historian

06/19/2019

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/juneteenth-our-other-independence-day-16340952/?linkId=69197369

Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, American slavery came to an end and a celebration of freedom was born

06/05/2019

On convict labor in the South and its legacy

Life in Sugar Land is sweet, particularly for the immigrants who flock to it in search of a fresh start and prosperity. Like much of the Houston metro area, it is among the most diverse, economically flourishing cities in America. Drawn to Houston’s booming energy industry, top-tier public schools...

05/30/2019

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/surrender-american-civil-war

05/28/2019

Tony Horwitz is a big reason why I fell in love with history as a kid, especially after I read "Confederates in the Attic."

A Pulitzer Prize winner at The Wall Street Journal, he wrote the best sellers “Blue Latitudes” and “Confederates in the Attic” and seven other books.

05/03/2019

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-museum-speaks-truths-former-capital-of-confederacy-180972085/

Against the odds, historian Christy Coleman merged two Richmond institutions, forging a new approach to reconciling with the nation's bloody past

04/11/2019

The anarchists in the Spanish Civil War chose Popeye the sailor as a mascot. "Eat your spinach to defeat the fascists, kids."

During the Spanish Civil War, the anarchists adopted Popeye the Sailor Man as their mascot. He was sometimes depicted waving the red and black flag…

04/08/2019

45 years ago today, Hank Aaron, an Alabama native, became baseball's all-time home run leader. Even though Barry Bonds would later technically break the record, I still consider Hank Aaron to be the HR king.

On April 8, 1974, a record crowd witnessed Hank Aaron become one of baseball’s immortals at At...

04/03/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/transatlantic-slave-trade-last-survivor.html

New research suggests that Redoshi, who became a free woman in 1865, may have been the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

03/25/2019

https://earlyamericanists.com/2014/02/18/was-the-american-revolution-a-civil-war/

Tom Cutterham argues that by thinking about the American Revolution as a civil war, we might better appreciate the violence and uncertainty, the disunity and insecurity, that surrounded the collaps…

03/18/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/17/nile-shipwreck-herodotus-archaeologists-thonis-heraclion?fbclid=IwAR3U1Bl4CNUBOyZQ6gein0SDvTRQn7CYtciigHwb__nbmOT1NPClFuN1Mlo

Greek historian’s description of ‘baris’ vessel vindicated by archaeologists at sunken city of Thonis-Heraclion

03/14/2019

https://www.history.com/news/white-women-slaveowners-they-were-her-property

Most Americans know that George Washington owned enslaved people at his Mount Vernon home. But fewer probably know that it was his wife, Martha, who

03/06/2019

An excellent article on domestic conflict within the Confederacy between the Confederate government and the Southern men who did not want to fight in the war.

In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time.