Category: White Supremacy
1619 Project Book’s History Defended
I saw Nikole Hannah-Jones speak at Hofstra University where I teach back in the days before the Pandemic. She spoke in the largest theater on…
New Historical Marker at Site of Mississippi’s 1875 Clinton Massacre
On Thursday a new marker was unveiled commemorating the 1875 Clinton Massacre in Mississippi. In 1875 forces in Mississippi hoping for the restoration of white…
U.S. Failed in Counterterrorism Operations After the Civil War
Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a scholar of counterterrorism studies at the Brookings Institution. He has an…
A Future Leader of the Resistance to Reconstruction Advocates Confederate Enlistment of Black Soldiers
I have read a number of musings and proposals by Confederates to enlist Black men into the Confederate army. The most famous is General Pat…
The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association
Chad Pearson, a professor of history at Collin College in Texas, has an article in Jacobin on the importance of the Ku Klux Klan to…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…