Month: February 2021

Reconstruction began while the Civil War was still raging. As Black refugees from slavery reached Union lines, they forced the United States government to reconstruct…

One of New York City’s most popular radio hosts, Alison Stewart, did a two hour interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight on the life…

Allison Stewart interviews Ben Montgomery in an interesting segment on a Confederate veteran and a Black man teaming up against injustice in Kentucky. From the…

I was planning on writing about the Ku Klux Klan Act, also known as “The Third Enforcement Act,” this year. Just as I was re-reading…

I was listening to the Washington Post’s podcast for President’s Day and it concluded with a wild quote from Andrew Johnson. Michelle Krowl from the…

Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song Edited by Chris Mackowski, published by Southern Illinois University Press (2020) $26.50 paperback. One of…

As white rule was being restored in state capitals across the South in 1877, the Krewe of Comus celebrated the alleged supremacy of the white…

You might think that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was unpopular in the South, but in 1873 it was the theme of the city’s largest Mardi…

The 1872 Memphis Mardi Gras featured a Klan float. This was the first-ever Mardi Gras parade in the city, which had seen a bloody massacre…

The New York Times has a review out of the new book ROBERT E. LEE AND ME: A Southerner’s Reckoning With the Myth of the…