Category: Memory of Reconstruction
Eric Foner on the Lessons of Reconstruction Post-January 6th
The New Yorker interviewed historian Eric Foner after the assault on the Capitol last week for his insights into the lessons the Reconstruction Era holds…
Two Obscure Confederate Monuments in the Florida Panhandle
We saw a lot of media attention given to Confederate monuments over the summer. These monuments often occupy prominent spaces in Southern towns and cities….
Around the Web December 2020: Best of the Blogs, Zooms, and Pods on The Civil War and Reconstruction
My long-time readers know that I have taken the journal Civil War History to task for an article last year critical of historians engaged in…
Historian Martha Jones Writes That University Founder Johns Hopkins Was Slaveowner, Not Abolitionist
Martha Jones is a well-known historian who teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Recently she was asked to research the school’s involvement with slavery. Her findings…
Podcast on the 1898 White Supremacist Coup that Took Control of Wilmington, N.C.
In 1898 the Redshirts, a White Supremacist paramilitary organization operating in the Carolinas, staged a coup in which they took over North Carolina’s second largest…
Around the Web November 2020: Best of the Blogs and Pods on The Civil War and Reconstruction
I was happy to see that the first installment of this continuing series highlighting the most interesting stuff I am seeing in the blogs was…
What Do Mississippi Students Learn About the Civil War and Reconstruction?
The Atlantic has a fascinating interview with Chuck Yarborough, a teacher who has been surveying high school students for years about what they learned about…
“Deconstructing Confederate Monuments” A Discussion About History and Monumentation
Kevin Levin, Dina Bailey and Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders participated in a discussion on Confederate monuments and how we understand history. The Zoom discussion at Grant Valley…
Plantation Weddings Are Fun If You Can Forget the Slavery: NY Times on Plantation Popularity
The New York Times has an interesting article on the growing popularity of the “Plantation Wedding.” The houses are big and sometimes beautiful, but the…
When the White League Militia Took Over New Orleans in 1874 It Pledged to End the “Stupid Africanization” of Government
The White League was one of the largest and most dangerous of the Reconstruction Era militias. It embraced the worldview of the Ku Klux Klan,…
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