Author: Patrick Young
Democratic Newspaper Wonders if Grant Still Antisemite in 1869
Grant’s order expelling the Jews from territory occupied by his army was issued in 1862, but more than six years later Democratic newspapers were still…
Videos from CUNY Conference on Abolitionism
In 2014, the CUNY Graduate Center organized an academic conference on the Abolitionist Movement. Some of the top scholars in the field particpated. The first…
The Johnson Impeachment Was Huge: An Interview With Brenda Wineapple
The New Yorker recently published an interview with the author of a new book on the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Brenda Wineapple in The Impeachers:…
Impeaching Johnson: Why Impeach a President Who Won’t Be Removed? New Series from The Reconstruction Blog
Andrew Johnson, one of our worst presidents, has rarely gotten as much press as he is receiving right now. With an impeachment inquiry under way…
The Woman Who Published “The Reconstructionist” Was a Firebrand and an Arson Target
I recently read the new book The Impeachers and I came across a newspaper that I never heard of before, The Reconstructionist. Here is what…
Franklin, Tenn. Dedicates Five Historical Markers Telling the Story of Slavery, Black Resistance, and Reconstruction
The Battle of Franklin Trust, the City of Franklin, and the Fuller Story joined forces to dedicate five historical markers describing the vital roles African…
From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas 1865-1869 (Black Community Studies) by Randy Finley
From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas 1865-1869 (Black Community Studies) by Randy Finley published by The University of Arkansas Press (1996) 229…
Sen. Henry Wilson Warns “Lost Cause” Partisans That Their Children Will Seek to Hide Their Ancestry 1869
The post-Civil War defense of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy included opposition to the passage of the 15th Amendment granting Blacks the right to…
Listening to the War: The Civil War Lecture Circuit 1870-1910
James Marten has an interesting article on one speaker on the Civil War lecture circuit. Listening to stories of the war was a popular form…
Frederick Douglass Tells Women’s Convention that Republicans Should Not Drop “Manhood Suffrage” Nov. 1868
On November 19, 1868 Frederick Douglass addressed the New England Women’s Rights Convention in Boston. Douglass had attended the the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in…