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Carl Schurz Warned That a “System of Terrorism” Was Taking Hold in the Post-War South in 1865

Carl Schurz arrived in South Carolina in the middle of July, 1865. He had been sent by new president Andrew Johnson to investigate the condition…

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Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox

Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox published by Florida University Press (2003). Hardcover $55.00,…

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Video Lecture: The Rise of the Southern Conservative Response to Reconstruction and the Klu Klux Klan

Professor Robert Kenzer of the University of Richmond gives a lecture on the “rise of the Southern conservative response and the Klu Klux Klan.” Very…

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Kommemorating the Klan’s Birthplace With a Backwards Plaque in Pulaski, Tn,

Six Confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Or maybe they didn’t. Much about the early months of…

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The Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan 1867

The Prescript of the original Ku Klux Klan was adopted in Nashville in April 1867 and is available here. As with all documents from clandestine…

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