On this blog I have previously mentioned an ongoing blog at the New York Times called Disunion, which features Civil War experts writing daily posts about the war. There have been several posts on the blog that connect especially well to things we have been talking about recently in class, so check them out if you have a chance:
- Susan Eva O’Donovan wrote about former slave William Webb and his political networks, shedding light on just how extensive the “grapevine telegraph” could be in the Old South and helping make sense of the rapid political organization of freedpeople in Union and Loyal Leagues after the war.
- J. David Hacker wrote about recent proposals to raise the accepted estimate for the number of deaths in the Civil War, which relates to Elizabeth’s question in class about the difference between casualties and deaths and how they were recorded.
- Susan Schulten wrote about a map of the Cotton Kingdom constructed by Frederick Law Olmsted, whose travels through the South came up in class last Friday.
If you see other posts on this blog or others of particular interest to you or our class, pass them along and I’ll post them up.