I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
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Kevin M. Levin
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Memory does not float free of power. It is always anchored to someone’s agenda, someone’s preferred version of what the nation is and what it owes. #CivilWarMemory #NationalParks #America250 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/stone-and-...
Memory does not float free of power. It is always anchored to someone’s agenda, someone’s preferred version of what the nation is and what it owes. #CivilWarMemory #NationalParks #America250 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/stone-and-...
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
Would trials take place? If so, where would they take place: civilian military? Are we talking mass executions by firing squad or hangings? How long would it take to execute millions of people?
Lots of questions.
Thank you for saying what I've been wanting to say.👏
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
How exactly would you define "every last Confederate"? I guess this means Jefferson Davis and high-ranking Confederate officers, but does it include all the rank and file, including everyone who was drafted after April 1862? Are all Confederate civilians included in this as well? Millions of people?
"Think of what it meant to have a man who despised Black people as the President during the era when the fate of Blacks in the United States after slavery was being decided. No sympathy or empathy. No human charity. Only implacable hostility." inpursuit.substack.com/p/andrew-joh...
Deeply saddened to learn of Gordon Wood's passing. Few have had an equal impact on the study of the American Founding, or on my own intellectual development. No book is more responsible for making me a historian of early constitutional history than Wood's *The Creation of the American Republic*.
