February 2022 - Page 2 of 2 - The Reconstruction Era

Podcast on Andrew Johnson’s Presidency

This podcast from the Washington Post focuses on the presidency of Andrew Johnson.

Podcast on Lincoln’s Eloquence as a Writer and Speaker

For Lincoln’s Birthday, we are highlighting this great podcast on the words of Abraham Lincoln. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of ‘Team of Rivals,’ and Michelle…

Civil War Lost Cause Monuments White Supremacy

Manassas Battlefield Confederate Park & Historical Vindication of the Confederacy

At its 1926 Convention, the Sons of Confederate Veterans spent a lot of time on a discussion of an internal dispute over its effort to…

Lost Cause Monuments

Opposing Stone Mountain’s Confederate Memorialization & Lee’s Shrine in 1926

In the 1920s, Confederate groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans were pushing forward schemes to memorialize the…

Ku Klux Klan

Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Grandson Helped Run the Revived Klan and Klan Kollege

We know that sons often went into the same occupations as their fathers and grandfathers back in the day, but they also could see running…

Lincoln Videos

Louis Masur Video Talk on Lincoln’s Reconstruction Policies

In November, Professor Louis Masur delivered the prestigious Robert Fortenbaugh Lecture in Gettysburg, PA. on Lincoln’s Reconstruction policies. Thanks to Al Mackey for pointing this…

Amnesty Civil War

When Longstreet Objected to Amnesty Offer for Confederate Soldiers January 1864

Here is an unusual correspondence between Union General J.G. Foster and Confederate General James Longstreet. In December, 1863 Abraham Lincoln had offered an amnesty to,…