A tour across the net reveals news and views of note:
- At Civil War Emancipation, Don Shaffer weighs the impact of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and surveys what other historians said this week about September 22, 1862.
- At Yesterday … and Today, Bob Pollack offers his reservations about an 1885 interview with Mary Robinson, who was a slave of Ulysses S. Grant’s father-in-law.
- Kevin Levin marks the passing of Marc Ferguson, a blogger as well as a commenter on many blogs and discussion groups.
Crossroads 