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Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue Was Shrouded in this 1905 Illustration

This illustration, “Forrest Again in White Shroud,” was published in the newspaper Memphis Press-Scimitar on April 30, 1905. The illustration appeared just a month before…

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Platform of the Ku Klux Klan Mississippi “A Government of White Men For White Men” March 1868

Here is a Mississippi paper’s publication of the platform of the KKK which focuses on the disenfranchisement of blacks. Many white conservative newspapers published Klan…

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Study How Former Confederates Ended Reconstruction With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918

This is the final article in our four-part series on how South Carolina told its children about the Civil War and Reconstruction from 1918 until…

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Fergus M. Bordewich Author of “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” Is on Civil War Talk Radio Podcast

Fergus M. Bordewich, author of “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” is on Civil War Talk Radio with Gerry Prokopowicz….

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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf (2023) 480 pages $35.00 In the immediate months after…

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NY Times Reviews Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich

Jennifer Szalai did a review in the New York Times of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M….

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Henry Louis Gates in NY Times on the Current Attack on Black History and Mildred Rutherford of the UDC

Historian Henry Louis Gates has a prominent article in the New York Times on the current attacks on the teaching of  Black history. Here are…

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Podcast: Kidada Williams on the History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

Chris Hayes of MSNBC interviewed Professor Kidada E. Williams about her new book “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the…

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October 17, 1871 Pres. Grant Suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Part of South Carolina

On October 17, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended Habeas Corpus in nine counties in South Carolina. Over the previous year the Ku Klux Klan…

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As Black Power Grew, Violence Increased to Suppress It

Clyde W. Ford is an award-winning author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. His latest book is Of Blood and Sweat:…

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