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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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Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Grandson Helped Run the Revived Klan and Klan Kollege

We know that sons often went into the same occupations as their fathers and grandfathers back in the day, but they also could see running…

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Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis

Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…

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Historic Brattonsville Opening Reconstruction Era General Store to Tell Story of a Murder

Historic Brattonsville in York County, South Carolina is restoring a general store that was the scene of an inquest into the killing of James Williams,…

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Kansas School District Blocks Circulation of Book on Reconstruction Era Klan

The Goddard School District in Kansas has been accused of book banning after it announced that 29 books would no longer be allowed to circulate…

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Sons of Confederate Veterans Ceremoniously Rebury Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate General, a slave trader, and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Buried under an equestrian statue of himself…

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South Carolina Plantation to Tell the Story of the African Americans Who Escaped From It

Historic Brattonsville in McConnells, S.C. is working on a new exhibit focusing on four people enslaved at the plantation at the center of the historic…

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The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association

Chad Pearson, a professor of history at Collin College in Texas, has an article in Jacobin on the importance of the Ku Klux Klan to…

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Film Recalls Stone Mountain as a Center of Confederate Memory

This short film looks at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia and its connection to the Lost Cause version of historical memory. The mountain was long…

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