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Articles by Pete Daniel
Did Johnny Come Marching Home With PTSD?
The horrors of the Civil War brought madness and suicide to many soldiers, but comparison to modern diagnoses of PTSD are difficult. David O. Stewart has published five books of American history. His fifth historical novel, The Burning Land, follows the wartime and postwar experience of a soldier in the 20th Maine Infantry regiment. The Burning Land releases[d]? on April 4, 2023. Text Not Final At the fiery battle of The Wilderness in early May 1864, a minie ball slammed into the shoulder of Gen.
The USDA Versus Black Farmers
Debt relief for Black farmers, part of the American Rescue Plan, has been blocked by a lawsuit by white farmers who are charging “reverse discrimination.” The issue brings up the extraordinary history of the US Department of Agriculture’s decades of denial of federal benefits to Black farmers, even after the civil rights laws of the 1960s.
Monumental Folly
Pete Daniel has written eight books and served as president of the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He retired as curator from the National Museum of American History a decade ago. To many curators and historians, President Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes might sound familiar, an echo of Catherine Reynolds’ $38 million offer to the National Museum of American History (NMAH) in 2001 to fund a hall of great achievers.
University of North Carolina Press
"Read Dispossession. It's a riveting and timely account of the deleterious legacy of slavery. And despite the national interest in civil rights, not much competes with Dispossession."--Huffington Post "Soberingly revealing the dark underside of an era hailed for black success against racism, Daniel's work exposes sickening, irreparable, racist destruction that compels reconception of popular memories of a generation of civil rights victories.
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
Pete Daniel surveys the history of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the class action lawsuits by black farmers in pursuit of social justice. What happened in rural America during the quarter century after 1950 has been eclipsed by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and growing concern over pesticides, nuclear testing, and other environmental issues.
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