Month: July 2019
In Defense of a White Man’s Government in Alabama January 1868
The Montgomery Advertiser January 14, 1868 gives an insight into what White Southern conservatives were fighting for during Reconstruction. It was “A White Man’s Government.” I…
The Knights of the White Camellia: Louisiana’s Klan
May 22, 1867 is the traditional anniversary of the founding of the The Knights of the White Camellia by, among others, Confederate Colonel Alcibiades DeBlanc. While…
Resource: Six Tables Summarizing Data About Black Officeholders During Reconstruction
The website Facing History and Ourselves has six tables that break down data about the more than 1,500 African Americans who were government officeholders during…
Remembering Racist Historian of Reconstruction William Dunning at His Columbia University Alma Mater
William Dunning was a Columbia Man. He was an undergrad, a graduate student, and a professor there, after having been expelled from Dartmouth as a…
National Park Service Handbook on Reconstruction
The National Park Service has a handbook out on the Reconstruction Era. Here is a link to it. It is similar to the familiar NPS…
Educational Reconstruction African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 by Hilary Green
Educational Reconstruction African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890 by Hilary Green published by Fordham University Press (2016) 272 pages, Paperback $35.00, Kindle $22.99.…
When Confederate Heritagers Rejected A.P. Hill’s Daughter as the “Daughter of the Confederacy”
Many of us know that Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis and pictured above, was given the title “The Daughter of the Confederacy” by many…
When a Ban on Chinese Immigration Was Proposed in 1867 Frederick Douglass Stood Up in Opposition
Americans’ fear of non-white, non-Christian immigrants began in 1848 with the arrival of the first ship full of Chinese in San Francisco Bay. The Chinese…
Look What Just Dropped: Harriet Tubman BioPic Trailer Out!
The trailer just dropped for the new film Harriet about the life of abolitionist, Union spy, and African American civil rights leader Harriet Tubman. The…
The Black Republican Party in Georgia Organized in May 1867 by African Americans
While the influential white supremacist historian of Reconstruction William Dunning often presented African Americans in the South as the ignorant tools of Northern whites, in…
Recent Comments