Category: White Supremacy
African Americans Organize to Expel Klan from Their Town in Tennessee June 1868
African Americans frequently organized themselves to counter Klan terrorism. This article describes an attack by the Klan in Chapel Hill, Tn. on a black man…
NPR’s “On the Media” Interviews Historian Brenda Wineapple About the Andrew Johnson Impeachment
National Public Radio’s popular show On the Media focuses on the Andrew Johnson Impeachment this week. It is timely for obvious reasons. Historian Brenda Wineapple…
“Terrorism in Tennessee” KKK in March 1868
I have sometimes been criticized for calling the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist organization by people who say that “terrorism” is a modern term. Many…
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…
Historian Manisha Sinha Sees Parallels Between Andy Johnson and Donald Trump
With the impeachment inquiry proceeding in modern Washington, pundits have been raising the examples of earlier impeachments. Nixon, Clinton, and Andrew Johnson are regularly invoked…
George Ashburn Assassinated: The First Klan Murder in Georgia March 1868
George Ashburn was a Southern white man who joined the Union army during the Civil War. In 1867 he was a delegate to the Georgia…
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates published by Penguin Press (2019) 320 pages $30.00 Hardcover $14.99…
Arguing Against the 15th Amendment and Blacks Voting in Georgia in 1869
In March of 1869 states took up the ratification of the 15th Amendment. The 15th Amendment outlawed discrimiation in voting based on race. One state…
New Resource on Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan from Gilder-Lehrman Institute
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute has a new essay describing the rise and fall of the Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan. Elaine S. Frantz of Kent State…
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