Category: White Supremacy
Study How Former Confederates Ended Reconstruction With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918
This is the final article in our four-part series on how South Carolina told its children about the Civil War and Reconstruction from 1918 until…
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…
A Presbyterian Pastor Gives Thanks for the Formation of the Confederacy Thanksgiving 1860
Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer was a Presbyterian pastor whose Thanksgiving 1860 sermon was notorious for the boost it gave to Secession. Here is some of…
The Map of the Battle of Liberty Place
Map source: https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/57333/battle-of-new-orleans-for-freedom-september-14-1874-hardee The “Battle of Liberty Place” was an armed coup by the White League of Louisiana to reimpose “White Only” governance in the…
The Reconstruction “Enforcement Act of 1870” Has Raised Its Head in Modern America
The Enforcement Act of 1870 was written to protect the democratic system during the Reconstruction Era from white supremacist conspiracies designed to take away the…
William Dunning Explains the Undoing of Reconstruction
This is the final installment of our Dunning Deep Dive. William Dunning was the leading academic writer on Reconstruction during the first half of the…
Monument to Man Killed Trying to Reverse Reconstruction to Be “Contextualized” in Hamburg
The July 1876 Hamburg Massacre was part of a series of terrorist acts planned by the supporters of former Confederate general Wade Hampton who was…
Series on How Confederate Heritage Impacts Alabama Wins Pulitzer Prize
Kyle Whitmire of AL.com in Birmingham, Alabama has won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his excellent series on the impact of Confederate heritage on…
Chart Shows Chronology of Lynchings of Blacks in Virginia After the Civil War
New data visualization from the Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia project of James Madison University helps to illustrate chronological patterns in the lynchings of Blacks….
Tennessee Senate Speaker Issued Proclamation Honoring Confederacy & “Black Confederates”
With a lot of attention being paid to Tennessee’s state legislature this month, it is interesting to look at an official proclamation issued by the…
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