Month: August 2019
“Irishmen And Germans Read This” The Mongrel Party’s Attack on Immigrants June, 1868
With the election of 1868, Democratic propaganda combined immigrant fears of the latent Know Nothingism of some Republicans and white immigrants’ concerns about their own…
NY Times “1619” Slavery Podcast
The New York Times’s series marking 400 years of slavery in America is titled “1619.” The series is drawing a lot of praise and some…
August 13, 1868 South Carolina Mourns the Death of Abolitionist Thad Stevens
Thad Stevens was one of the great advocates for racial equality in the United States Congress. When he died, there was an outpouring of sadness…
When Thad Stevens Died the Old Abolitionist Was With Black Preachers and Catholic Nuns August 1868
Anyone who saw the movie Lincoln remembers the masterful portrayal of Thad Stevens by Tommy Lee Jones. Old Thad is portrayed as a dedicated racial…
When the Great Historian of Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois Got a White Supremacist Laughed Off the Stage
W.E.B. Du Bois was the seminal figure in modern Reconstruction studies. The brilliant intellectual was one of the most important historians of the American experience….
Ku Klux Soda Fountain in Pulaski Tenn. August, 1868
Pulaski, Tn. is usually considered the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. In the hottest days of 1868, as a campaign of White Terror was…
NY Times Offers a Brief History of Slavery in the U.S.
The New York Times’s new 1619 series offers a brief history of slavery that you may want to read. From the article: Sometime in 1619, a…
Arguing Against Civil Rights in 1875 “You have not the power to make him white, and he never will be satisfied”
Thomas Whitehead was a former Confederate officer who was elected to Congress from Virginia in 1872. In 1875 he gave a speech opposing the Civil…
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers published by the University of North Carolina Press (2014) 522 pages Hardcover…
Miseducating “Dixie Children”: A Confederate Textbook Discusses Race 1863
During the Civil War several education books were printed to to teach Confederate children the worldview of their elders. This book appeared in 1863. Below…
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