Author: Patrick Young
Freedmen’s Bureau Report for Virginia Sept. 30, 1868-The trials of whites for the murder of Negroes
By October, 1868, when this report on the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Virginia was published, the Bureau was just three months away from…
Cartoonist Thomas Nast, the Campaign of 1868, and the Image of Ulysses S. Grant
In May, 1868, German immigrant illustrator Thomas Nast designed the backdrop at the Republican National Convention. According to biographer Fiona Deans, “On an enormous…
NY Times: Kentucky Jeff Davis Statue Removed, Where to Put It?
Many Confederate statues are being moved out of city boulevards and village squares. The question is “What to Do With them?” While the natural answer…
Upcoming Free Virtual Civil War and Reconstruction Programs
There are not many good aspects to the current COVID Pandemic. Three of my own family members have gotten the virus and Long Island, where…
“A fixed predetermination on the part of…the white people…to resist…impartial suffrage” Louisiana 1868
When the Louisiana legislature investigated racial terrorism in 1868 during the elections that year, it issued a detailed report on what it found. The first…
A Call for Extending the Civil War Day of Action by Historians
The Journal of the Civil War Era organized the Sept. 26 Historians Day of Action at Civil War sites around the country. Today, Adrienne Petty…
The Secrets of the Knights of the White Camellia-White Terror in Louisiana 1868-1869
In 1869 a report on white supremacist terrorism connected to the Election of 1868 was published by a Joint Committee of the Louisiana Legislature. Entitled Supplemental…
Randall Kennedy Reviews Eric Foner’s Recent Book on the Reconstruction Amendments in LRB
Legal scholar Randall Kennedy reviews Eric Foner’s new book on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in the London Review of Books. Foner’s The Second…
Book Review-The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields by C. Dier
The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields by C. Dier published by History Press (2017) 147 pages Harcover $23.99, Paperback $20.16, Kindle…
Gettysburg Times Covers Historians’ Day of Action #WeWantMoreHistory
On September 30, 2020, the Gettysburg Times published an article on the Historians’ Day of Action at Gettysburg. I was fortunate enough to have been…