Category: 15th Amendment
Opposing the 15th Amendment: The Conservative and Democratic Argument Against Blacks Voting 1869-1870
The 15th Amendment granted equal voting rights to all male citizens regardless of race. It passed both houses of Congress in Feb. 1869 and went…
Jamelle Bouie in NY Times on How the 15th Amendment Could Have Better Protected Black Voting Rights
Jamelle Bouie has an article in the New York Times on the shortcomings of the 15th Amendment and the attempt by Radical Republicans to craft…
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…
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…
Arguing Against the 15th Amendment and Blacks Voting in Georgia in 1869
In March of 1869 states took up the ratification of the 15th Amendment. The 15th Amendment outlawed discrimiation in voting based on race. One state…
Eric Foner Interviewed by Ed Ayers about Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments for Backstory
The radio show Backstory With the History Guys had a good show with historian Ed Ayers interviewing the godfather of modern Reconstruction studies Eric Foner….
Gen. Longstreet’s Infamous Letter: On Joining the Republicans & “Betraying” the Confederates 1867
General James Longstreet was one of the most respected military leaders of the Confederacy after the war. That is, until he published an infamous letter…
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…
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…
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