Launched in 2011, "Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded." The series ended in June of 2016. The full archive of posts is available at the New York Times website.
Steven Hahn
ARTICLES/JOURNAL: Special Joint Issue on Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic world
The American Historical Review and Past & Present have joined forces to publish a joint, virtual special issue reviewing historiographic debates related to slavery and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. "The editors of The American Historical Review and Past & Present are pleased to present a free virtual issue on ‘Slavery and anti-slavery in the … Continue reading ARTICLES/JOURNAL: Special Joint Issue on Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic world
ARTICLES: Slavery and Emancipation in The Journal of the Civil War Era
Steven Hahn. “Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State.” The Journal of the Civil War Era 3, no. 3 (2013): 307–330. "At the very time he was drafting the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, President Abraham Lincoln dispatched one of his generals, John Pope, to Minnesota with orders to … Continue reading ARTICLES: Slavery and Emancipation in The Journal of the Civil War Era
ESSAY: Hahn on the “Legacy Of Eugene Genovese”
"Yet no book of Genovese’s has had the impact of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974). A long, complex, almost Hegelian treatment of the master-slave relation – and of the dynamics of power that were embedded within it – Roll, Jordan, Roll is a study of intense struggle, unfolding over decades, that … Continue reading ESSAY: Hahn on the “Legacy Of Eugene Genovese”
Hahn on “What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves”
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded. Join Disunion on Facebook » Hahn, Steven. “What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves.” New York Times. Disunion, February 12, 2011. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/what-lincoln-meant-to-the-slaves/. … Continue reading Hahn on “What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves”
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