Month: August 2019
Book Review: Searching for Black Confederates by Kevin Levin
Newly Published Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin published by University of North Carolina Press (2019) Hardcover…
Civil Rights Group Uses 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act to Go After Modern White Nationalist Terrorists
The 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act was passed to counter a growing wave of white supremacist terrorism during the Reconstruction Era. The law made individuals…
In May 1869 Republican Refugees Fled to Atlanta
Increasing violence in 1868 and 1869 led some white Republicans to flee the Southern countryside for the protection of Federal garrisons. This story recounts the…
The Dangerous Idea that Only White People Can Govern Themselves: Horace Greeley
Adam Serwer at The Atlantic Magazine has an interesting article this week on the persistent American idea that only white people are capable of governing…
“Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” Documentary to Run this Week on Many PBS Stations
Beginning tomorrow, many PBS stations are rerunning Henry Louis Gates’s four hour series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. Check your local PBS station’s schedule…
Resource-After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas
I recently learned about this free on-line resource After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas. You can access it here. This…
The Memphis Massacre of 1866: A Race Riot Pits Immigrants Against Freed Slaves
John C. Creighton had emerged as an important figure in Irish American politics in Memphis in 1866. He was elected recorder for the city and…
Washington Post Publishes Comments of Plantation Tourists Complaining that They Learned About Slavery!
For about a hundred years, “Plantation Tours” in the South virtually ignored the slaves who made up the vast majority of the people living on…
Prelude to a Reconstruction Riot: Irish and Blacks in Memphis in 1866
Immigrants lived in much of the United States at the start of the Civil War, but their numbers were not evenly distributed. Roughly 90% of…
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams published by University of North Carolina Press (2007) $29.95 Paperback $18.83 Kindle. Self-Taught:…
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