Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
How a Law Professor Described the Klan to His Students
This year I have offered a look at the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. I wrote about the Klan’s Constitution, the commercialization of the Klan, and…
How the Klan Was Taught to Kids Before the 1980s
In the 1920s, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grandson, who had the same name, attracted quite a bit of attention when he announced that he was setting…
Senator Ben Tillman Explains Why the Vote Was Taken Away from African Americans in South Carolina
Benjamin Tillman, better know as “Pitchfork Ben,” was a former Confederate who had risen to prominence as one of the most ruthless partisans of white…
Trump Administration Goes After the Smithsonian Institution Because Smithsonian Doesn’t “Want You to Love Your Country”
Today there will be a hearing directed at the claimed “wokeness” of the Smithsonian Institution. A report came out late on July 4, 2026 that…
David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian
David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…
Misunderstandings About the “Black Codes”
A misconception I run into when I discuss Reconstruction is that the Black Codes were passed because of the corruption and mismanagement of the governments…
Curtis Yarvin “Historian” for Tech Bros Says Blacks Were Better Off With Slavery
The New York Times did an interview with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer who in middle age has become a major player in the reexamination…
Emerging Civil War Honors Patrick Young with Stevenson Award
Last Friday I was honored by the non-profit Emerging Civil War organization for my work researching and writing about the Reconstruction Era. Here is the…
Platform of the Ku Klux Klan Mississippi “A Government of White Men For White Men” March 1868
Here is a Mississippi paper’s publication of the platform of the KKK which focuses on the disenfranchisement of blacks. Many white conservative newspapers published Klan…
The Early History of Yale University Was Set Among Puritan Slavery
I am just now reading David Blight’s history Yale and Slavery which can be accessed for free online. Here are things I learned from the…