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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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Historic Brattonsville in York County SC Now Tells Important Reconstruction Klan Story

Historic Brattonsville in York County, South Carolina, has created a new exhibit on the Reconstruction Era at Brick House on the old plantation’s property. South…

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Around the Web April 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media

March was a most unusual month for me. I spent the last third of it hospitalized at the NYU hosital in Mineola, on Long Island….

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