Category: 14th Amendment
When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War
On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…
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…
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…
Irish World Cartoon: White League “Leave the Negro Alone” Deep Dive
The Irish World, the most popular Irish immigrant newspaper in late 19th Century America, took a firm stand against white supremacist violence during Reconstruction. I…
Profiles in Courage, Adelbert Ames, JFK and Reconstruction Racism
Today’s New Yorker has an article by Nicholas Lemann on persistent questions he has about John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage….
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Explains Why the 14th Amendment Is Necessary for Reconstruction 1867
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain became Governor of Maine on January 2, 1867. He had risen to prominence as a heroic Union officer at Gettysburg. In his…
What Everyone Should Know About Reconstruction
There is an article that originally appeared on The Conversation which is now getting republished on a number of sites, most recently on Salon. Authored…
Congratulating Virginia for Rejecting Black Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment January 1867
On January 9, 1867 Virginia rejected the proposed 14th Amendment. The Amendment granted United States citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including former…
The Nation Magazine Reviews New Book from Eric Foner on Reconstruction Constitutional Amendments
Historian Michael Kazin has a very favorable review of Eric Foner’s new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution….
NY Times: Thoughts on the 150th Anniversary of the Start of U.S. Grant’s Presidency
This is the Sesquicentennial of the Grant Presidency. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times Opinion columnist, has a thoughtful article on the hopes engendered 150 years…
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