Surveying Emancipation

Surveying Emancipation

by | Mar 20, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 lent new urgency to the question of “what shall we do with the Negroes.” What had been only a possibility a few months before — the freeing of more than 3 million slaves still behind...
Southern Character

Southern Character

by | Dec 26, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel Kilbride, eds. Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3690-8. The fifteen essays in this collection stem from a conference organized in 2005 in...

Civil War Professor Reviews 'Lincoln'

by | Dec 4, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

I am walking out of the multiplex theater in my old hometown of Springfield, and already the sold-out audience for the next showing of Steven Spielberg’s new “Lincoln” is queuing up. The sound of something very rare in my movie-going experience is still...
Lincoln's Code

Lincoln's Code

by | Nov 30, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

In “Lincoln’s Code,” writer and professor John Fabian Witt tells the story of Francis Lieber, the man who wrote the rules of war for Abraham Lincoln, and how those rules became the basis for modern laws governing the conduct of warfare....
News from Around the South 10/3-10/10

News from Around the South 10/3-10/10

by | Oct 11, 2012 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Arkansas: Mauch Under Fire for Slavery Defense A Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives has a history of writing in support of slavery and the Confederacy, along with comparing Abraham Lincoln to Karl Marx. State Rep. Loy Mauch (R-Bismarck) wrote a...