Kevin M. Levin
@civilwarmemory.bsky.social
I am a NJ born and Boston-based Civil War historian and speaker. Author of numerous books and articles, including "Searching for Black Confederates" (2019). More details at cwmemory.com
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Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History.
president.yale.edu/committees-p...
president.yale.edu/committees-p...
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History.
president.yale.edu/committees-p...
president.yale.edu/committees-p...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
📣 Our new @uncpress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalog is HERE ✨
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
This season showcases a wide-ranging list of books that dig into history, culture, politics, identity, environment, etc. to make sense of who/where we are now. A few highlights 🧵👇 uncpress.org/spring-summe...
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Have you had a chance to watch Netflix's mini-series about President James A. Garfield? I've got some thoughts about one particular scene. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
No doubt, many of you have had a chance to watch Netflix’s mini-series Death by Lightning, a dramatization of the life and assassination of President James A.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Have you had a chance to watch Netflix's mini-series about President James A. Garfield? I've got some thoughts about one particular scene. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Just trying to have a little fun, but admittedly this was unfair to DKG.
Doris Kearns Goodwin will be the film's Shelby Foote.
By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just trying to have a little fun, but admittedly this was unfair to DKG.
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“The people—the people—are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts—not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.”
~Abraham Lincoln, speech in Kansas, Dec. 1859.
Image: Library of Congress.
~Abraham Lincoln, speech in Kansas, Dec. 1859.
Image: Library of Congress.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“The people—the people—are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts—not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.”
~Abraham Lincoln, speech in Kansas, Dec. 1859.
Image: Library of Congress.
~Abraham Lincoln, speech in Kansas, Dec. 1859.
Image: Library of Congress.
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Thanksgiving is not a colonial/Pilgrim holiday. It’s a Civil War holiday. & we think otherwise in part because of the Lost Cause. 🗃️
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
Let’s talk the real #history of #Thanksgiving & the #LostCause history of the #CivilWar Follow @karencoxhistorian “Forgotten America” is available on @thegreatcourses plus & @Audible
TikTok video by PhDRachel
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November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Thanksgiving is not a colonial/Pilgrim holiday. It’s a Civil War holiday. & we think otherwise in part because of the Lost Cause. 🗃️
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/
Have you had a chance to watch Netflix's mini-series about President James A. Garfield? I've got some thoughts about one particular scene. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
No doubt, many of you have had a chance to watch Netflix’s mini-series Death by Lightning, a dramatization of the life and assassination of President James A.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Have you had a chance to watch Netflix's mini-series about President James A. Garfield? I've got some thoughts about one particular scene. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Doris Kearns Goodwin will be the film's Shelby Foote.
By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
LBJ & the Great Society - Ken Burns
This three-part, six-hour series will chronicle the life and times of Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most capable, colorful, and controversial men ever to occupy the White House. A figure of extraordin...
kenburns.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Doris Kearns Goodwin will be the film's Shelby Foote.
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"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
No doubt, many of you have had a chance to watch Netflix’s mini-series Death by Lightning, a dramatization of the life and assassination of President James A.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
No doubt, many of you have had a chance to watch Netflix’s mini-series Death by Lightning, a dramatization of the life and assassination of President James A.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Death By Lightning," the GAR, and Black Civil War Veterans
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada.
Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past
The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada. This move is part of the Catholic Church’s effort to address its role in suppressing Indigenous culture in the Americas.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada.
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Charlottesville friends, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center @jsaahccville.bsky.social has released a great new app--History in the Palm of Your Hand. It explores the story of the school & our city through audio, photos, documents & maps. It's very cool. mailchi.mp/jeffschoolhr...
History in the Palm of Your Hand
mailchi.mp
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Charlottesville friends, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center @jsaahccville.bsky.social has released a great new app--History in the Palm of Your Hand. It explores the story of the school & our city through audio, photos, documents & maps. It's very cool. mailchi.mp/jeffschoolhr...
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Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social for sending along a review copy of Antwain Hunter's new book. 🗃️ uncpress.org/978146968989...
A Precarious Balance
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November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social for sending along a review copy of Antwain Hunter's new book. 🗃️ uncpress.org/978146968989...
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In the Voices department of our current (Winter '25) issue we highlight quotes from Union and Confederate soldiers about being wounded in battle. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room to include all that we found. Read those that just missed the cut here: tinyurl.com/r2retymw
Extra Voices: Being Wounded
Read first-person quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about their reactions to being wounded on the Civil War battlefield.
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In the Voices department of our current (Winter '25) issue we highlight quotes from Union and Confederate soldiers about being wounded in battle. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room to include all that we found. Read those that just missed the cut here: tinyurl.com/r2retymw
Otis preparing for his morning walk.
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Otis preparing for his morning walk.
Looking for a good book about President James Garfield? The James A. Garfield National Historic Site has you covered. 🗃️#NationalParks
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Looking for a good book about President James Garfield? The James A. Garfield National Historic Site has you covered. 🗃️#NationalParks
The New Fugitive Slaves: How Will They Be Remembered? How Will We Be Remembered?
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The New Fugitive Slaves: How Will They Be Remembered? How Will We Be Remembered?
A fellow historian posted the above image on Bluesky this morning and it sent a chill down my spine.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The New Fugitive Slaves: How Will They Be Remembered? How Will We Be Remembered?
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The South Didn't Lose the Civil War. The Confederacy Did.
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The South Didn't Lose the Civil War. The Confederacy Did.
Some thoughts about how language can lead us astray.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The South Didn't Lose the Civil War. The Confederacy Did.
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"The United States isn’t a nation like other nations, and it never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created."--Gordon Wood www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"The United States isn’t a nation like other nations, and it never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created."--Gordon Wood www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
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As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
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With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
"And yet, if you will indulge me, it does feel as if November 2025 is to Trump what April and September 1862 were to the Confederacy." -- @jamellebouie.net I hope Jamelle isn't suggesting that we still have Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and the Overland Campaign ahead of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Mired in a War of Attrition
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"And yet, if you will indulge me, it does feel as if November 2025 is to Trump what April and September 1862 were to the Confederacy." -- @jamellebouie.net I hope Jamelle isn't suggesting that we still have Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and the Overland Campaign ahead of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Heading out to the country to look at houses, meaning anything west of the city of Boston.
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Heading out to the country to look at houses, meaning anything west of the city of Boston.