Vanderbilt University’s digitized database of Robert Penn Warren’s conversations with civil-rights activists provides students and scholars with a chance to “listen in” on the movement
…with prominent civil-rights leaders and activists; he called the project Who Speaks for the Negro? Nearly fifty years later, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, also based at…
In Jack Hurst’s new look at Civil War leadership, the standouts are Grant and Forrest, who rose to the top in spite of—and also because of—their backgrounds
…is more valuable: sociological and psychological context, and a smooth, real-time, narrative. He includes Grant’s and Forrest’s every movement, day-to-day, including details like the number of drinks Grant had in…
Novelist Jeff Shaara returns to his Civil War roots
…has set himself another ambitious goal, and as America ponders the legacy of the Civil War during these sesquicentennial years, his books will help commemorate the men who faced each…
Marching to the Mountaintop, Ann Bausum’s overview of civil-rights history for young readers, begins in Memphis
…officials declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard. President Lyndon B. Johnson sent a federal mediator to help settle the strike. The failure of the march…
Jonathan D. Sarna’s excellent new study of General Grant’s notorious Civil War order expelling “Jews as a class” suggests that it had unexpectedly positive consequences for America’s Jewish community
…wider cultural and political developments. Jonathan D. Sarna’s When General Grant Expelled the Jews may not technically be a micro-history—neither U.S. Grant nor the Civil War can really be considered…
Children’s author Patricia McKissack takes home her ninth Coretta Scott King honor
January 24, 2012 Yesterday at a ceremony in Dallas, the American Library Association announced the winners of the Caldecott, Newbery, and Coretta Scott King awards for children’s literature. Nashville native…
