Category: White Supremacy
Fugitive from FBI for Capitol Attack Was Part of Gettysburg Militia Occupation
Rachel Powell, a Pennsylvania woman sought by the FBI in connection with her prominent role in the violent attack on the Capitol that left five…
When Confederate General James Longstreet Lost the Battle of Gettysburg in 1874
Students of Civil War history know that after the war, General James Longstreet became a scapegoat for Lost Cause adherents seeking to explain Confederate defeat….
Historians Greg Downs and Kate Masur on How the Current Crisis Reflects Our Reconstruction Past
This has been a busy three weeks for historians being asked by news organizations for comparisons between the current political situation and the Reconstruction Era….
Heather Cox Richardson on the Republican Party in the Civil War & Reconstruction Era
Heather Cox Richardson did a gajillion-part series on the history of the Republican Party on Facebook Live over the summer. The first five hours cover…
Yale University Sets Up Working Group on the School’s Ties to Slavery and Racism
In October, Yale University established a working group of students, faculty, and people from the local community to investigate the school’s links to slavery and…
Is the Use of “White Supremacy” Anachronistic in Writing About the Confederacy and Reconstruction?
Note: 19th Century articles in this post include racist terms to insult African Americans and persons of mixed-race ancestry. I recently described President Andrew Johnson…
Effort by Trump Administration to Alter History Teaching Condemned by Actual Historians
The final effort by the Trump administration to alter the teaching of history was a report from the newly minted 1776 Commission released on Martin…
Celebrating Emancipation Day in the Heart of the Confederacy January 1, 1869
January 1 was celebrated in Black communities as Emancipation Day, a commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. While Juneteenth was celebrated in Texas, in many areas…
When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War
On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…
Podcast on the 1898 White Supremacist Coup that Took Control of Wilmington, N.C.
In 1898 the Redshirts, a White Supremacist paramilitary organization operating in the Carolinas, staged a coup in which they took over North Carolina’s second largest…