A historian raises concerns as the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction in Fayetteville moves ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted over the issue of slavery. By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a ...

Her research focuses on American history and in particular Southern history. Her book Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile (University of Alabama Press, 1985) was reprinted in 2001 with ...

Myers, Ph.D. "We started with 'African Americans in Tallahassee: The Antebellum Period,' and now we've moved on to the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction." This will be followed by "The ...

Jason Friedman grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He became a short story writer, winning the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction with the collection “Fire Year,” and lives in San Francisco with ...

Most of the history told of Northwest Georgia and Walker County regards the Antebellum and Civil War eras, Foster said. At county events, she said, African Americans would be asked to come dressed ...