Category: Myths of Reconstruction
Texas Panel to Tell the State’s History Leaves Out Most of the Reconstruction Era (And a Lot About Slavery)
Texas Monthly reports on the whitewashing of Texas history by the states new 1836 Project. Last year the Texas legislature passed a bill establishing the…
North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center Groundbreaking June 2
The North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center will hold a groundbreaking on June 2 for its third phase of construction. The center is expected…
American Civil War Museum in Richmond Opening New Theater
The American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, is opening a new theater at its Tredegar site in June. The Richmond Times Dispatch has a…
Video Reconstruction in the Movies-NPS Ranger Rich Condon Discusses Hollywood Depictions
Reel History is a regular series on YouTube discussing how history is portrayed by Hollywood. In this episode Reconstruction in the Movies National Park Ranger…
History Teacher on How State History Standards Undermine the Teaching of Reconstruction
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca has an interesting column in the Washington Post today. Wolfe Rocca teaches American history and works with the Zinn Education Project on state…
Civil War Institute Panel With Licensed Battlefield Guides
Here is another Civil War Institute panel posted earlier this week. This one focuses on the history and experiences of the Licensed Battlefield Guides (LBG)…
Ty Seidule Interviewed on “RobertE. Lee and Me” (& The Lost Cause)
Ty Seidule is the historian of the hour, with his new book Robert E. Lee and Me on of the most talked about historical works…
Ku Klux Klan Float at the 1872 Memphis Mardi Gras
The 1872 Memphis Mardi Gras featured a Klan float. This was the first-ever Mardi Gras parade in the city, which had seen a bloody massacre…
Is the Use of “White Supremacy” Anachronistic in Writing About the Confederacy and Reconstruction?
Note: 19th Century articles in this post include racist terms to insult African Americans and persons of mixed-race ancestry. I recently described President Andrew Johnson…
When Lost Causers Drink from the Devil’s Punchbowl They Are All Wet
When I am online writing about the treatment of African Americans during Reconstruction, I often encounter Lost Cause advocates who respond to documentation about Klan…
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