Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
April 1867 First Ku Klux Klan Convention Held in Nashville’s Maxwell House
The founding of America’s oldest terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, is shrouded in myth and legend. While Klan lore places its first meeting on…
Platform of the Virginia Conservatives April 1869 “setting forth the policy of the white people of the state”
This platform was adopted by the Virginia Conservative Party on April 29, 1869. The Conservatives were a party made up of Democrats and old Whigs…
“We Go to the Polls for the First Time in 8 Years…& the White Vote Will Fall Into the Ballot Box”
A Democratic newspaper in Baton Rouge wrote about the importance of voting in the election of 1868. As in many similar articles, this one demands…
Knights of the White Camelia and the Election of 1868 in Lousiana
I found an interesting article on one of the less well-known white supremacist terrorist organizations, the Knights of the White Camelia. This group was based…
Video: Southern Historical Society Panel on Teaching Reconstruction at the College Level
Here is an interesting panel presentation given two months ago at the Southern Historical Association about ways to teach Reconstruction at the undergraduate level. There…
Gen. Robert Toombs: Reconstruction Is “Subjection of the Caucasian to the African and the Scalawag” Sept. 1868
Robert Toombs was an important political and military leader of the Confederacy. A pre-war Whig, he became a Democrat. Here is a report on a…
Congratulating Virginia for Rejecting Black Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment January 1867
On January 9, 1867 Virginia rejected the proposed 14th Amendment. The Amendment granted United States citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including former…
Book Review-Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid: African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619–2019 by Eugene DeFriest Bétit (2019)
Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid: African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619–2019 by Eugene DeFriest Bétit (2019) This recent book by Eugene Betit traces the…
Book Review: LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2019) $30.00 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle Learning…
Kevin Levin’s “Searching for Black Confederates” Named a Scholar’s Choice for Favorite History Book of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine
Yesterday I posted the Smithsonian Magazine’s picks for the best books of 2019. Today I am posting the Civil War/Reconstruction Era books named in the…
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