'The white man's favorite blacks'
Yesterday’s blog post included the remarkable fact that, after the Civil War, Jefferson Davis and his brother Joseph sold their Mississippi plantation to one of their former slaves, Benjamin Montgomery.… Read More»
Jeff Davis, Meet Horace Greeley
I came across two unexpected Virginia connections in our entry on Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. Oh, by the way, Davis’s two hundredth birthday, as a few bloggers have pointed… Read More»
The Great Man’s Dirty Linen
Miscegenation is all the rage! It’s been the focus of a couple of entries on this blog and will, in the coming week, be a concern of the weekly history… Read More»
History in 200 Words; A Case Study (Pt. 2)
In Pt. 1, we moaned about the difficulty of making fine historical distinctions in the space of a mere 200 words and then used, as an example, a distinction that—let’s… Read More»
History in 200 Words; A Case Study (Pt. 1)
Each week, Encyclopedia Virginia publishes a feature called Virginia Vignettes. These are short paragraphs highlighting some bit of Virginia history and are often, though not always, culled from entries we… Read More»
On the Burned Ruins of Richmond
I was in Richmond recently and I wondered aloud whether the city had been burned during the Civil War. This was, perhaps, a stupid question, but I’m from Iowa. So… Read More»
Happy Loving Day
Today is the forty-first anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that in 1967 legalized mixed-race marriages. In this morning’s Washington Post, African American novelist Karyn Langhorne… Read More»
Click? Clack? KABOOM!
Rachel Quimby, Associate Producer of the new history-focused radio show BackStory, has submitted this description of the program. Readers of the Encyclopedia Virginia blog should check it out . .… Read More»
'I don't see color'
Several days ago I patched together a few thoughts on race-mixing. The writer Steven Augustine has since commented on the piece (on another blog where the essay was also posted),… Read More»
George Garrett (1929-2008)
George Garrett died on Sunday at the age of 78. He was, in the words of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s blog, a “prolific author, screenwriter, professor, and beloved Charlottesville figure.”… Read More»
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