Author: Patrick Young
When Pres. Johnson Ended the Civil War in 1866 He Began a New War With the Radical Republicans
You may believe that the Civil War ended in 1865 at Appomattox, but not according to Andrew Johnson. On April 2, 1866 Andrew Johnson issued…
Videos on Reconstruction from Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves offers a free series of seven 15 minute videos focusing on Reconstruction. You can visit the website here: https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/video-series The first…
Resource: Bios of Virginia’s Black Reconstruction Era Legislators
A new database of Black Legislators from Reconstruction Era Virginia is available. You can read about it here. You can find short bios of the…
Video: Professor Jonathan Holloway of Yale University on African Americans from Emancipation to Reconstruction
Over the coming months I hope to give you access to video talks on Reconstruction by some of the experts in the field. If you…
Kommemorating the Klan’s Birthplace With a Backwards Plaque in Pulaski, Tn,
Six Confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Or maybe they didn’t. Much about the early months of…
President Johnson Accuses the Radical Republicans of Being Assassins Feb. 1866
With impeachment talk in the air back in 1866, Andrew Johnson came out swinging at the Radical Republicans. Hoping to shift the political scene in…
Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Racial Equality edited by Brooks Simpson
Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Racial Equality edited by Brooks Simpson published by The Library of America (2018) $40.00 Hardcover $19.99 Kindle. …
States Considered Giving Blacks Right to Sue for Being Held as Slaves after Emancipation Proclamation?
William Dunning in his Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction and Related Topics (1897, 2nd ed. 1904) says that at the various Southern state Constitutional…
The Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan 1867
The Prescript of the original Ku Klux Klan was adopted in Nashville in April 1867 and is available here. As with all documents from clandestine…
Where the Union Army Was at the Start of Reconstruction
In conjunction with Greg Downs’ recent book After Appomattox, online maps showing the role of the army in Reconstruction are available. This map shows towns…