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…
“A dead Radical is very harmless” How to Win the Election of 1876
The Election of 1876 is most well-known for what happened after the polls were closed. Fraudulent and delayed vote counts, rival state tallies of votes,…
Ted Widmer on How Lincoln Survived the Worst Election Ever
Professor Ted Widmer, author of Lincoln on the Verge, has a piece in the New York Times today on Lincoln and the Election of 1860….