Around the Web November 2020: Best of the Blogs and Pods on The Civil War and Reconstruction
I was happy to see that the first installment of this continuing series highlighting the most interesting stuff I am seeing in the blogs was…
What Do Mississippi Students Learn About the Civil War and Reconstruction?
The Atlantic has a fascinating interview with Chuck Yarborough, a teacher who has been surveying high school students for years about what they learned about…
The Top Selling Civil War Era Books of 2020
According to Civil War Monitor the top selling books about the Civil War Era over the last year include some popular histories, a few scholarly…
1876 Winning the Election by Refusing to Certify the Vote & Throwing Out Results
The initial vote counts for three states were incredibly close in the days after theĀ November 7 Election of 1876. In South Carolina, Republican Rutherford…
Counting the Vote in 1876-Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Election Day 1876 had gone anything but smoothly in South Carolina. The heavily armed white Redshirt supporters of former Confederate General Wade Hampton set the…
Video: “Why Reconstruction Matters” With Henry Louis Gates, Eric Foner, and Kimberly Crenshaw
In October Columbia University did another of its free online Zoom symposiums. Here is the description from Columbia: On October 20, 2020, leading scholars examined…
By Nov. 12 Rutherford B. Hayes Comes to Terms with Defeat by “Violations of the 15th Amendment”
On November 12, 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes wrote in his diary that he had accepted that he had lost the election. He wrote that numerous…
Hayes Warns Don’t Claim Victory Until the Votes Are Fully Counted
The day after the Election of 1876, Republican candidate Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes looked over the telegrams reporting the still only partial vote tallies…
Nov. 8, 1876: White Richmonders Celebrate the Election of Tilden as President
Nerves were on edge as the balloting ended in the highly contested Election of 1876 between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden. The…
The Plan to Suppress the Black Vote in South Carolina Revealed!: Election 1876
General Martin W. Gary was a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War commanding cavalry. He had served in Hampton’s Legion and he had refused…