Category: Memory of Reconstruction
Video Lectures: “The Road from Appomattox: Political Violence, Military Conflict, and National Reunion”
On February 20, 2016 the Library of Virginia hosted The Road From Appomattox Symposium. C-SPAN posted some of the lectures, so I thought a post…
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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When There Was Opposition to the National Park Service Doing Reconstruction History It Came from Sons of Confederate Veterans
Now that the National Park Service is in the fourth year of its work on the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park in Beaufort, SC, it can…