The Worcester Telegram & Gazette was in attendance when I gave a talk at Clark University in February. Here’s what resulted: https://www.telegram.com/news/20190205/story-of-civil-war-slave-refugees-resonates-today Despite how it looks in the photo, I really appreciated writer Mark Sullivan’s attention to the connections between this history and our lives today.
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Interview with America’s Civil War
I really enjoyed my conversation with Nancy Tappan of the magazine, America’s Civil War. She posed ten great questions, and I offered ten answers, all of which appear in this feature for the May 2019 issue of the magazine. See it online at https://www.historynet.com/10-questions-flight-and-fight.htm
“Author’s Corner” Interview
John Fea, Professor of History at Messiah College, asked me some big questions–and kindly posted my answers–on his blog, “The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life.” Here it is: https://thewayofimprovement.com/?s=taylor
“Migrant Caravans” Then and Now
The Journal of the Civil War Era’s “Muster” blog featured my essay on the connections between today’s political conflict over “migrant caravans” and a similar incident in 1862. Check it out at https://www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2018/12/the-electoral-politics-of-migrant-caravans/
Interview with the Civil War Institute
Ashley Whitehead Luskey of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College asked me some great questions about the history of Civil War refugees. Find it here: https://gettysburgcompiler.org/2018/12/11/an-interview-amy-murrell-taylor/
First Published Review for Embattled Freedom
Check out the “starred” review for Embattled Freedom at Publisher’s Weekly. The reviewer calls the book “gracefully written and exhaustively researched.”