Author: Patrick Young
March 1869: President “Grant’s Intense Negroism” Denounced
Soon after Grant became president he was denounced for his “intense Negroism.” Charleston daily news Saturday, Mar 13, 1869 Charleston, SC Vol: 7 Page:2
Ku Klux Flour? Kooking With The Klan in 1868
So I was reading the daily farm report a while ago and I saw the report on commodities and darn if there wasn’t something called…
April 1867 First Ku Klux Klan Convention Held in Nashville’s Maxwell House
The founding of America’s oldest terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, is shrouded in myth and legend. While Klan lore places its first meeting on…
Platform of the Virginia Conservatives April 1869 “setting forth the policy of the white people of the state”
This platform was adopted by the Virginia Conservative Party on April 29, 1869. The Conservatives were a party made up of Democrats and old Whigs…
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson Heavily Discounted on Amazon
I was browsing Amazon today and I noticed that one of the better recent books on Reconstruction is heavily discounted. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction…
Washington Post: If Johnson Was Impeached and Removed, Jeff Davis Might Have Been Executed
The Washington Post has an article speculating that if Andrew Johnson had been removed from office by the Senate at the conclusion of his impeachment…
“They hung three or four negroes nearly dead” The Ku Klux in Florence, Ala. Nov. 26, 1868
This account of a Ku Klux Klan occupation of Florence comes from the Democratic newspaper the Daily Phoenix. It was originally published in the Memphis…
Reconstruction: A Concise History by Allen C. Guelzo
Reconstruction: A Concise History by Allen C. Guelzo published by Oxford University Press (2018) 188 pages $18.95 Hardcover $11.49 Kindle This was not a book…
“We Go to the Polls for the First Time in 8 Years…& the White Vote Will Fall Into the Ballot Box”
A Democratic newspaper in Baton Rouge wrote about the importance of voting in the election of 1868. As in many similar articles, this one demands…
Smithsonian Magazine on the St. Landry Parish Massacre Louisiana September 1868
Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting article on the St Landry Massacre of 1868. The article is a good overview of the mass murder of African…