Matt DiBiase Interview

Matt DiBiase of RadioPublic’s Packaged Tourist Show interviewed me regarding Unsung Patriots this past April 26. Matt DiBiase’s show features authors, artists, and commentators of all stripes dealing with the arts, sports history, American history, world history, and socio-political issues. This show tapes every Tuesday evening, usually at 10:00 PM EST. “Tonight’s guest is a dear…

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The South “Won” the Civil War by their “Lost Cause” Theory

  The South “Won” the Civil War by their “Lost Cause” Theory. The Southern account of the Civil War developed nearly as soon as the guns went silent. In an amazing achievement, Edward Pollard, wartime editor of the Richmond Examiner, published a 752-page study, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of…

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Link to Blacks in the Confederate Army

The link to the presentation on African Americans in the Confederate States Army I gave April 28 is below:   Click on the link below to view the recording of the presentation: https://youtu.be/M26rfTWJdNs — Charles Brewer, President CIVIL WAR STUDY GROUP  LAKE OF THE WOODS, VIRGINIA Please visit our website often:  http://www.civilwarstudygroup.org

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Black Confederate Presentation at Lake of the Woods

Black Confederate Presentation at Lake of the Woods. Last Friday, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk on African Americans serving in the Confederate army to the Lake of the Woods Civil War Study Group. The following is a summary of this fascinating topic: Neo-Confederates Neo-Confederates began to spin stories of African American units…

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Unsung Patriots Summary

Recently, I presented an Unsung Patriots discussion as part of The Village at Orchard Ridge’s Life-Long Learning series. The lecture covered African Americans’ arms-bearing history from early colonial times to the present. Revolutionary War During our War for Independence, slave owners were reluctant to arm their enslaved chattel, but two factors permitted about 7,000 blacks…

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Black Confederates Revisited

Continuing to research and rewrite my forthcoming book, African Americans in American History, I found a lot more material on the topic of black Confederate soldiers. So much, in fact,  that I made the topic a separate chapter instead of an add-on to US Colored Troops. The Confederates clearly recognized the efficacy of the 200,000…

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