At the state archives I found the testimony of a wife about the killing of her [Unionist] husband. He was shot while plowing . . . . A man walked up, squatted […]
Remembering William T. Auman, Civil War Historian
The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle”
By Vikki Bynum Here’s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator and moderator of Mixed Race Studies, […]
Southerners Against Slavery: Wesleyan Methodists in Montgomery County, North Carolina
In two of my works on Southern Unionism, Unruly Women (1992), and Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010), I wrote extensively about the effects of the anti-slavery Wesleyan Methodist movement in […]
Gary B. Sanders, “Confederate Conflict in Jackson County, Alabama”
Guest columnist Gary B. Sanders, who is kin to the Sanders family of Montgomery and Randolph Counties of North Carolina, has ancestors on both sides of the U.S./Confederate divide. Here, Gary tells […]
THE LONG SHADOW OF THE CIVIL WAR reviewed online in THE CIVIL WAR MONITOR
The following is the latest online review of my recent book, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. I especially appreciate the careful and thorough analysis provided by Laura Hepp Bradshaw, a PhD candidate […]
Announcements: a past interview; an upcoming presentation; the Knight-Booth Family Reunion
Interview by Wisconsin Public Radio This has been a busy week, and the upcoming week will be even more so! As part of Wisconsin Public Radio’s observation of the 150 year anniversary of the Civil War, […]
The Racially Ambiguous Family of Diza Ann Maness McQueen and Wilson Williams
Please read the preceding essay, “The One Drop Rule Revisited,” first! NOTE FROM MODERATOR: Wallace Jarrell’s research on the descendants of Diza Ann Maness McQueen, identified in records as white, and her husband, […]
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