In the winter of 2008, Civil War Era historians began sending each other blogposts with subject lines like “So good” or “you won’t believe it.” By some undeserved miracle, a widely circulated magazine hosted a blog for deeply serious, if not yet fully formed, arguments about the meaning of the Civil War and of slavery. Subsequent posts can be found here, here, here, and here. Please follow along this week to hear from historians about how Coates’s work relates to our study of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Our guest editor for the series, Greg Downs, offers his introduction here. This week we are running a roundtable about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, We Were Eight Years in Power. Forum: The Future of Civil War Era Studies.Reconstruction in Public History and Memory at the Sesquicentennial: A Roundtable Discussion.Maintaining a Radical Vision of African Americans in the Age of Freedom. In a Class by Itself: Slavery and the Emergence of Capitalist Social Relations during Reconstruction.Birthright Citizenship and Reconstruction’s Unfinished Revolution.The Civil War and State-Building: A Reconsideration.Forum: The Future of Reconstruction Studies.Preview the Contents for September 2023.
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