Hey all - so I am very happy to end 2019 on a positive note with my podcast, The Rogue Historian. It’s been a fantastic year..and the show has grown a great deal - thanks to listeners such as yourself.
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Foner notes the flaws of the Reconstruction Amendments but lauds the Second Founding as a praiseworthy legal accomplishment in terms of moving towards realizing ideals
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Richard Bell’s new book is a beautifully crafted narrative tracing the story of five young boys - free African Americans from Philadelphia - who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1820s
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The authors of this extraordinarily well-researched volume are at their best in reviewing all of the options before Meade in the aftermath of the Union victory at Gettysburg.
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Black people - their voices, their aspiration, their actions - take center stage in Gates’s book, and rightfully so.
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Pfarr’s mission is to “critically reassess” the Longstreet-at-Gettysburg evidence in order to evaluate whether or not the claims against “Lee’s Warhorse” hold water.
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Oh…and if you are really interested, yes - that is a Lawrence Welk coffee mug in the picture. It was my Grandma’s so don’t judge.
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Wukovits follows Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 through training, life aboard the USS Yorktown, their first taste of combat, and the final few minutes of World War II in the Pacific Theater.
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But this one is an particularly welcome addition to my ever-growing library. To begin, the authors do a beautiful job of contextualizing the Peach Orchard fight on July 2…
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Kirkwood provides an engaging narrative investigating the George Spangler Farm as the hospital site for the Union XI and II Corps beginning on July 1.
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Some time ago, I transcribed all the letters - written from August 1863 to June 1865 - with the intention of publishing an edited and annotated volumes sometime in the future. What I wound up doing, something quite innovative I must say…
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