Category: White Supremacy
Columbia University Report by Eric Foner Detailed Links to Slavery
Columbia University in New York issued a report in 2017 on its connections to slavery. Read about it in the New York Times. The report…
John Oliver Discusses How U.S. Schools Teach Slavery and Reconstruction
John Oliver has a funny/angry take on how children in the United States are taught the history of slavery, Emancipation, Reconstruction and White Supremacy. Adult…
John Lewis Crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge Named After a Klan Leader
Most of you know that John Lewis was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. You may have seen Lewis’s body carried across the…
Southern Newspaper Reflects on the Change in New Orleans Race Relations Caused by Union Occupation
Here is an interesting article on Union occupied/liberated New Orleans from a pro-Confederate newspaper in Texas. The article takes up nearly a full page in…
Profiles in Courage, Adelbert Ames, JFK and Reconstruction Racism
Today’s New Yorker has an article by Nicholas Lemann on persistent questions he has about John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage….
NPR Reports on the Removal of Statues from Monument Avenue in Richmond
Monument Avenue in Richmond was conceived as a whites-only neighborhood where the heroes of the Confederacy would be honored. NPR has a report on the…
Letter to National Park Service from Historian Critical of “Militia” Occupation of Gettysburg
Photo of peaceful anti-racism procession at Gettysburg on July 19, 2020. h/t Jake Wynn Dr. Jennifer M. Murray is Professor of History at Oklahoma State…
On the Use of the Word “Terrorism” to Describe Violence During Reconstruction: Anachronism?
I am sometimes asked if my using the word “terrorism” to describe racial or political violence during the Reconstruction Era is anachronistic. It isn’t. I…
Historian Megan Kate Nelson Questions “Union” Statues in the Southwest
Historian Megan Kate Nelson has a new article in the Atlantic on the ambiguous “Union” statues in the Southwest that now face removal. According to…
Reconstruction and “The Limits of Black Forgiveness”
I like to link readers of The Reconstruction Era Blog to scholars writing online. Scott Hancock is a professor of History and Africana Studies at…