Recent Book Reviews

• Review of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. By Tiya Miles. The Public Historian 43, no. 4 (November 2021): 134-136.
• Review of Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. By Robert E. May. Louisiana History: The Quarterly Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 62, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 109-112.
• Review of Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870–1920. By Le’Trice Donaldson. Journal of Military History 85 (January 2021): 219-220.
• Review of The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson. By Lolita Buckner Inniss. Journal of Southern History 86 (August 2020): 705-707. 
• "The Georgetown Slavery Archive, http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu." Digital History Reviews, American Historical Review 125, no 2 (April 2020): 587-589.
• Review of Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory. By Marc Howard Ross. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50, no 4 (Spring 2020):  611-613.
• Review of Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonialization in the Philippines, H-Empire (February 2020).
• Review of Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints. Edited by Judith Giesburg and Randall M. Miller, Reviews in History, January 2020, (review no. 2364), DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2364. 
• Review of Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugees Camps. By Amy Murrell Taylor. Journal of Civil War Era 9 (December 2019): 660-663.
• Review of Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights. By Melissa Milewski. Nineteenth Century History 20, vol. 2 (September 2019): 221-222.
• Review of Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow. By Jeffrey Aaron Snyder. History of Education Quarterly 59 (February 2019): 154-156.
• Review of Facing Freedom: An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow. By Daniel Thorp. The Historian 80 (Winter 2018): 818-819.
• Review of Rochelle Riley, ed., The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery. Michigan Historical Review 44, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 138-139.
• Review of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. By David W. Blight, The Civil War Monitor, October 17, 2018.
• Review of Maintaining Segregation: Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955. By LeeAnn G. Reynolds. West Virginia History 12 (Fall and Spring 2018), 125-126.
• Review of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio. By Nikki Taylor. Journal of Southern History 84 (August 2018): 742-743.
• “Reconciling Race, Slavery, and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy,” (Review of Denmark Vesey's Garden), Tropics of Meta, May 28, 2018.
• Review of Schooling in the Antebellum South: The Rise of Private and Public Education in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. By Sarah Hyde.  Journal of Civil War Era (March 2018): 134- 136.
• Review of Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri by Sharon Romeo, Journal of Southern History 84 (February 2018): 184-186.
• Review of Sarah H. Case, Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South, H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews, February 2018.
• Review of Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality. By Pamela Grundy. North Carolina Historical Review 95 (January 2018): 103-104.
• “Educating Imperial Citizens: New Perspectives of Race, Nation, Empire, and American Public Schools,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16 (July 2017): 368-371.
• Review of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction. By Elaine Franz Parsons, Civil War History  63, no. 2 (June 2017): 202-204.
• “Booker T. Washington High School: Revisiting Education and Black Politics in Atlanta,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16 (January 2017): 105-106.
• “Slave Marronage: Space, Identity and Resistance in Early North American Empires,” History: Review of New Books 44 (February 2016): 31-33.

Scholarly Blogs

• "Black Widows and the Struggle for Pensions After the Civil War," an online roundtable of Holly Pinheiro's The Families Cause, Black Perspectives, January 12, 2023.
• "University of Texas's Racial Geography Tour: A Review," Black Perspectives, January 20, 2021.
• "Civil War Era Scholars Respond to January 6, 2021 Events and Aftermath," Muster, January 12, 202. 
• Greg Downs, Hilary N. Green, Scott Hancock and Kate Masur, “#WEWANTMOREHISTORY: A National Day of Action,” Perspectives on History, October 9, 2020.
• "Civil War Call to Action: Filling Historical Silences," Muster, September 23, 2020 (Updated September 28, 2020). 
• "Tracing Black Mothers' Love: Reconstruction-Era Reunification and DH Possibilities," Muster, April 28, 2020.
• "When Art and History Collide: Surrender, Civil War Memory and Public Engagement," Muster, February 28, 2020.
• “A Long Retreat: Episodes 3 and 4 of  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,” Muster, April 26, 2019.
• “Spatial Roots, Lawsuits, and Leisurely Pursuits: A SHA 2018 Recap,” Muster, November 20, 2018.
• “James McBride’s Reimagining John Brown and His Legacy,” Muster, Roundtable on recent Civil War Era Fiction, October 25, 2018.
• "Erasing Dred Scott's Shadow," Muster, Roundtable on the 14th Amendment, July 12, 2018.
• “A Recap of 2018 CLAW’s ‘Freedoms Gained and Lost’ Conference,” Muster, May 25, 2018. 
• "CLAW 2018 Conference: A Preview of Freedoms Gained and Lost," Muster, March 2, 2018.
• "Calls to Action: The Civil War Era Songs of Joseph R. Winters," Muster, February 20, 2018.
• “Reconstruction Scholars’ Public Engagement: Why it Matters,” Muster, December 22, 2017.
• “Teaching Slavery and Its Legacy Offers Unique Possibilities,” Teaching Hub, December 13, 2017.
• “Teaching Reconstruction: Some Strategies That Work,” Muster, October 6, 2017.

Recent Interviews

• Interview appeared in Brian Lyman, “University of Alabama will take Klansman's name off building now named for civil rights hero,” USA Today, February 11, 2022.
• Interview appeared in Kayla Solino, “University of Alabama reverses course, will remove Klansman name andhonor Autherine Lucy on hall,” Al.com, February 11, 2022.
• Interview appeared in Sarah Brown, “U. of Alabama Reconsiders Keeping a Former Klansman’s Name on aCampus Building,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9, 2022.
• Interview appeared in Philip Morris, “Reclaiming History,” National Geographic (February 2021): 100-123.
• Interview appeared in Jennifer Schuessler, “Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for More History,” New York Times, September 28, 2020. 
• Interview appears in Carol Metzler, “Historians respond to 100+ racist Southern memorials coming down,” Southern Vision Alliance, September 9, 2020, 
• Interview appeared in Sydney Trent, "At 88, he is a historical rarity-the living son of a slave," Washington Post, July 27, 2020.
• Interview appeared in "UA Professor Creates Map of Confederate Monument Removals," A&S College News, July 21, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Chris Joyner, "As monuments tumble, are we 'erasing' history? Historians say no," Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 11, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, "Confederate Memorials Falling Faster Than Ever on College Campuses," Bloomberg.com, July 10, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Christina Morales, "What's At the Bottom of a Confederate Monument? It Could be a Time Capsule," New York Times, July 8, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Hideyuki Ishigaki, "A growing awareness of 'symbols of discrimination,' 40+ Confederate statues removed since May," Jiji Press, July 3, 2020 (in article is in Japanese).
• Interview appeared in Lily Jackson, "Alabama's largest universities to grapple with deep wounds from slavery, Jim Crow. Can they build a better future?," Reckon by Al.com, July 2, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Mary Scott Hodgin, "Removed Birmingham Confederate Monument 'A Weight Lifted Off of This City,'" WBHM.org, Jun2 16, 2020.
• Interview appeared in John Sharp, "'Watershed moment,': Will removal of Confederate monuments lead to lasting change in Alabama?," Al.com, June 12, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Ellen Gutoskey, "Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the Country-And Historians Aren't Surprised," Mental Floss, June 12, 2020.
• Interview with Chris Barr, NPS Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, "African American Education During Educational Reconstruction," April 6, 2020.
• Interview appeared in Brynna Mitchener, "Professor emphasizes need for conversations regarding Confederate monuments," Crimson White, March 9, 2020. 
• Interview appeared in Jonece Starr Dunigan, "Slavery hard to teach in 'Cotton State' of Alabama, elementary educators say," AL.com, December 11, 2019.
• Interview appeared in "Episode 88-Tuscaloosa Bicentennial," Discovering Alabama, Alabama Public Television, aired on October 11, 2019.
• Interview appeared in Ramishah Maruf, "Some worry Reckoning program doesn't measure up to peer institutions," The Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 2019.
• Interview appeared in Javon Williams, "'Lest We Forget': A Q&A with Professor Hilary Green," The Crimson White, September 9, 2019.
• Interview appeared in Abbey Crain, "UA professor offers alternate campus tour highlighting enslaved people," AL.com, September 8, 2019.
• Interview appeared in Lily Jackson, "Is Auburn's response to Ivey blackface incident enough," AL.com, August 30, 2019.
• Interview, "While Some Southern Schools Examine Connections With Slavery, Tensisons Rise at UGA," On Second Thought, Georgia Public Radio, April 2019.
• Interview, “How We Memorialize the Civil War,” WFAE Charlotte Talks, March 12, 2019, https://www.wfae.org/post/charlotte-talks-how-we-memorialize-civil-war#stream/0.
• Interview appeared in Melinda Anderson, “Beyond slavery and the civil rights movement: Teachers should be integrating black history in their lessons,” NBCNews.com, February 26, 2019.
• Featured interview appeared in Rebecca Griesbach and Will Haney, “William and Hilary,” Mosaic (Winter 2019): 7-11.
• Interview appeared in Jessa Reid Bolling, “Telling the Truth: Hallowed Grounds displays history of slavery,” The Crimson White, February 21, 2019, 1, 8-9.
• Interview appeared in James Brooks, “Heritage, Refracted,” The Public Historian 41, no. 1 (February 2019), 7-9.
• Interview appeared in Kennedy Plieth, “Slavery pop up museum examines Reconstruction in Tuscaloosa,” The Crimson White, December 7, 2018.
• Interview appeared in Antonia Noori Farzan, “Silent Sam: A Racist Jim Crow-era speech inspired UNC students to topple a Confederate monument on campus,” Washington Post, August 21, 2018.

• Interview appeared in Hannah Kahn, “150 Years of Equal Protection: 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution turns 150.” Newsomatic.com, July 30, 2018.
• Interview appeared in Wendie Dinwiddie, "Local Spotlight: Interview with Dr. Hilary N. Green," Black Warrior Review, May 28, 2018.
• Interview appeared in Caroline Smith, "Memorials, museums and publicity honor Alabama civil rights heroes," The Crimson White, February 26, 2018.

Podcast Interviews

• David Freudberg, “The Lost Cause (Parts 1 and 2),” episodes 293 and 294 of Humankind: Voices of Hope and Humanity, December 20, 2022, https://www.humanmedia.org/product/lost-cause-parts-1-2/. 
• Marty O, “Episode 57 Hilary Green, The Hallowed Ground Project,” Alabama History Podcast, December 9, 2022. 
• Podcast interview with Tommy Tommilson, “Historian Hilary Green On Unearthing The Stories Of The Enslaved People Who Built A University,” SouthBound, a WFAE.org (NPR Charlotte, NC) podcast, June 9, 2021.
• Radio interview with WDET's Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson, “Contextualizing University of Michigan’sYost Area Renaming: Campus Histories of Race and Slavery,” WDET (NPR Detroit, MI), June 11, 2021.
• Podcast interview with Kidada Williams, “Interview: Hilary Green,” Seizing Freedom, April 12, 2021.
• Podcast interview in Katherine Rye Jewell, History Mixtapes, Liner Notes, Vol. 1, Track 2 – Hilary Green, February 26, 2021, Apple Podcasts and YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfSBlNVmYMo&t=2s.
• Podcast interview in Holly Pinheiro, Roundtable on African American Families in the Civil War Era: A Discussionwith Hilary Green, Kelly D. Mezurek, Amy Murrell Taylor, H-Civil War Diversity Initiative, February 12, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMUiVx3s-S8uBRbR_S0I2qbFP6SWQ8ohV.
• Podcast interview in Adam McNeil, "Roundtable on W. E. B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935): A Discussion with Hilary N. Green, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, and Robert Greene II, New Books Network, February 1, 2021, https://newbooksnetwork.com/roundtable-on-w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-in- america-1935.

• Interview appeared in Mary Scott Hodgin, "Removed Birmingham Confederate Monument 'A Weight Lifted Off of This City,'" WBHM.org, June 16, 2020.

• Podcast interview with David Silkenat and Frank Cogliano, "Whiskey Rebellion 134: Monuments to White Supremacy (with Dr. Hilary Green)," The Whiskey Rebellion podcast. June 14, 2020.
• Podcast interview with Brad King, "Episode 57: Dr. Hilary Green," The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast, May 14, 2020.
• Podcast interview with Julian Chambliss, Ep 207 – Hilary Green and Transformative Digital History, Reframing History, April 21, 2020.
• Interview with Chris Barr, NPS Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, April 6, 2020,https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=1E4091A9-94E5-AE64- E193A94524E67A6D.

• Interview, “While Some Southern Schools Examine Connections With Slavery, Tensions Rise At UGA,” On Second Thought, Georgia Public Radio, April 24, 2019, “https://www.gpbnews.org/post/while-some-southern-schools-examine-connections- slavery-tensions-rise-uga.
• Interview, “How We Memorialize the Civil War,” WFAE Charlotte Talks, March 12, 2019, https://www.wfae.org/post/charlotte-talks-how-we-memorialize-civil- war#stream/0.

• Podcast interview in Andy Crank and Elizabeth Stockton, “Ding Dong, Silent Sam is Dead,” The Sound and the Furious, January 22, 2019, https://www.soundandthefuriouspod.com/episodes/2019/1/21/ding-dong-silent-sam-is-dead.

• Podcast interview appeared in Lesley “Jo” Weaver and Erik Pederson, “Racism and Black Bodies,” Speaking of Race, September 30, 2018, http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast/racism-and-black-bodies.

• Podcast interview appeared in Adam McNeil, “Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890,” New Books Network - African American Studies, July 9, 2018.
• “Listener Story,” North Carolina Voices: The Civil War, WUNC, Chapel Hill, NC, aired June 13-20, 2011.