Washington Post: If Johnson Was Impeached and Removed, Jeff Davis Might Have Been Executed
The Washington Post has an article speculating that if Andrew Johnson had been removed from office by the Senate at the conclusion of his impeachment…
“They hung three or four negroes nearly dead” The Ku Klux in Florence, Ala. Nov. 26, 1868
This account of a Ku Klux Klan occupation of Florence comes from the Democratic newspaper the Daily Phoenix. It was originally published in the Memphis…
Reconstruction: A Concise History by Allen C. Guelzo
Reconstruction: A Concise History by Allen C. Guelzo published by Oxford University Press (2018) 188 pages $18.95 Hardcover $11.49 Kindle This was not a book…
“We Go to the Polls for the First Time in 8 Years…& the White Vote Will Fall Into the Ballot Box”
A Democratic newspaper in Baton Rouge wrote about the importance of voting in the election of 1868. As in many similar articles, this one demands…
Jamelle Bouie in NY Times on How the 15th Amendment Could Have Better Protected Black Voting Rights
Jamelle Bouie has an article in the New York Times on the shortcomings of the 15th Amendment and the attempt by Radical Republicans to craft…
Elizabeth R. Varon Wins Lincoln Prize for “Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War”
Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute announced that Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press),…
When the Daughters of the Confederacy Wanted a Statue Dedicated to “Loyal Mammies”
The United Daughters of the Confederacy were one of the most effective women’s organizations in the South in the early 20th Century. They fostered the…
New Map and Guide to New York City Abolitionist Sites
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has put together a useful guide to sites in the city associated with the Abolitionist Movement. Maps and…
Smithsonian Magazine on the St. Landry Parish Massacre Louisiana September 1868
Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting article on the St Landry Massacre of 1868. The article is a good overview of the mass murder of African…
Knights of the White Camelia and the Election of 1868 in Lousiana
I found an interesting article on one of the less well-known white supremacist terrorist organizations, the Knights of the White Camelia. This group was based…