Month: June 2019
Resource: Bios of Virginia’s Black Reconstruction Era Legislators
A new database of Black Legislators from Reconstruction Era Virginia is available. You can read about it here. You can find short bios of the…
Video: Professor Jonathan Holloway of Yale University on African Americans from Emancipation to Reconstruction
Over the coming months I hope to give you access to video talks on Reconstruction by some of the experts in the field. If you…
Kommemorating the Klan’s Birthplace With a Backwards Plaque in Pulaski, Tn,
Six Confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Or maybe they didn’t. Much about the early months of…
President Johnson Accuses the Radical Republicans of Being Assassins Feb. 1866
With impeachment talk in the air back in 1866, Andrew Johnson came out swinging at the Radical Republicans. Hoping to shift the political scene in…
Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Racial Equality edited by Brooks Simpson
Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Racial Equality edited by Brooks Simpson published by The Library of America (2018) $40.00 Hardcover $19.99 Kindle. …
States Considered Giving Blacks Right to Sue for Being Held as Slaves after Emancipation Proclamation?
William Dunning in his Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction and Related Topics (1897, 2nd ed. 1904) says that at the various Southern state Constitutional…
The Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan 1867
The Prescript of the original Ku Klux Klan was adopted in Nashville in April 1867 and is available here. As with all documents from clandestine…
Where the Union Army Was at the Start of Reconstruction
In conjunction with Greg Downs’ recent book After Appomattox, online maps showing the role of the army in Reconstruction are available. This map shows towns…
13th Amendment Documents and Commentary
On December 15, 1865 Sec. of State William Seward announced that the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery had been ratified and that it was now the…
When There Was Opposition to the National Park Service Doing Reconstruction History It Came from Sons of Confederate Veterans
Now that the National Park Service is in the fourth year of its work on the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park in Beaufort, SC, it can…
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