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Podcast on the 1898 White Supremacist Coup that Took Control of Wilmington, N.C.

In 1898 the Redshirts, a White Supremacist paramilitary organization operating in the Carolinas, staged a coup in which they took over North Carolina’s second largest…

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How to Manufacture a Faithless Elector: Oregon in the Election of 1876

Oregon was a young state in 1876 and its politics were unpredictable. With only three Electoral votes, it did not get much attention during the…

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Around the Web November 2020: Best of the Blogs and Pods on The Civil War and Reconstruction

I was happy to see that the first installment of this continuing series highlighting the most interesting stuff I am seeing in the blogs was…

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What Do Mississippi Students Learn About the Civil War and Reconstruction?

The Atlantic has a fascinating interview with Chuck Yarborough, a teacher who has been surveying high school students for years about what they learned about…

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The Top Selling Civil War Era Books of 2020

According to Civil War Monitor the top selling books about the Civil War Era over the last year include some popular histories, a few scholarly…

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1876 Winning the Election by Refusing to Certify the Vote & Throwing Out Results

The initial vote counts for three states were incredibly close in the days after theĀ  November 7 Election of 1876. In South Carolina, Republican Rutherford…

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Counting the Vote in 1876-Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money

Election Day 1876 had gone anything but smoothly in South Carolina. The heavily armed white Redshirt supporters of former Confederate General Wade Hampton set the…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Videos

Video: “Why Reconstruction Matters” With Henry Louis Gates, Eric Foner, and Kimberly Crenshaw

In October Columbia University did another of its free online Zoom symposiums. Here is the description from Columbia: On October 20, 2020, leading scholars examined…

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By Nov. 12 Rutherford B. Hayes Comes to Terms with Defeat by “Violations of the 15th Amendment”

On November 12, 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes wrote in his diary that he had accepted that he had lost the election. He wrote that numerous…

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Hayes Warns Don’t Claim Victory Until the Votes Are Fully Counted

The day after the Election of 1876, Republican candidate Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes looked over the telegrams reporting the still only partial vote tallies…

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