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Alabama City of Eufaula Purposely Forgets Its History of 1874 Massacre of Black Voters

The Birmingham News has an in-depth article  by Kyle Whitmire on how Eufaula, Alabama ignores is history. This is a city ostensibly steeped in history,…

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Martin Luther King on How the History of Reconstruction Was Distorted

Martin Luther King  delivered a speech in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate the 100th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois. In his speech,…

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Washington Post Database Identifies 1,700 Slaveowners In Senate and Congress

The Washington Post has put together a remarkable database of Members of Congress and Senators who owned slaves. You can find the article explaining the…

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Jefferson Davis and the Constitutional Right to Own Slaves

Many of us learned in school to revere the Constitution as a “Charter of Freedom,” a Magna Carta of rights for the ordinary citizen. More…

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Andersonville and the Whitewashing of History

We know of the suffering and death at Andersonville prison during its fourteen months as a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers in 1864 and…

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Opponents of Reconstruction Used Tropes of White Victimization to Oppose Black Equality

Historian Lawrence Glickman has a fascinating article in The Atlantic on the ways modern opponents of civil rights use tropes common among the opponents of…

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NY Times Book Review Podcast Interview With Clint Smith on “How the Word Was Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery”

The first half hour of the New York Times Book Review podcasts is devoted to Clint Smith’s new book on how historic sites interpret slavery,…

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Civil War Institute Mapping Confederate Statues Throughout the South

The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College has announced a new project called State of the Confederacy. According to the Civil War Institute: This is…

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Sons of Confederate Veterans Tribute to Nathan Bedford Forrest at 1909 UCV Convention

The 1909 Convention of the United Confederate Veterans was held in Memphis, Tenn. between June 8 and June 10. The annual conventions of the premier…

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Celebrating the End of Reconstruction With a Mardi Gras Tribute to the Aryan Race

As white rule was being restored in state capitals across the South in 1877, the Krewe of Comus celebrated the alleged supremacy of the white…

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