With all the buzz about Twitter being the latest source for breaking news, it may be easy to overlook the fact that Twitter is also a good place to look for information about the past.
A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard.
The Southern History Database is a teaching and research tool that allows students to collaborate with fellow students. By compiling the research of undergraduates into a single comprehensive database, the SHD provides students and teachers access to a wide-ranging portrait of life in the nineteenth-century South.
The Manuscripts Department administers virtually all archival material held by the UNC-Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library. The Department has four components: the Southern Historical Collection, long known for its strong collections of antebellum plantation, Civil War, and Reconstruction South materials, continues to acquire 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts along with substantial collections of 20th-century materials relating to the American South; General Manuscripts holds literary and other manuscript materials not related to the American South; University Archives and Records Service maintains and contains the official records of the University; the Southern Folklife Collection documents the region's expressive traditions, especially in music.
By Robert Behre
More than two decades before the Civil War, a planter in Edgefield, South Carolina, contemplated the languishing cotton prices and the plummeting value of his slaves—which by some accounts were worth less than a third of their value before the Panic of 1837.
RECONSTRUCTION ACTS OF 1867
* The following two (2) acts were passed by the Congress of the United States, over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, in March, 1867. The full text of each act is laid out, as well as the messages appertaining to the Presidential veto, and subsequent override.
Second Reconstruction Act-
March 23, 1867
An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States," passed . . . [March 2, I867] . . ., and to facilitate Restoration.
This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of History podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. All my reviews on these podcasts can be found under the label history.