“The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” By Brenda Wineapple Makes the NY Times’s Notable Books of 2019 List
The New York Times has released its prestigious list of the “100 Notable Books” of 2019 and several Reconstruction Era-related books are on the list….
Smithsonian Names Three Civil War/Reconstruction Era Books to Its Top 10 List for 2019
Smithsonian Magazine came out with its list of the Ten Best History Books of 2019 this week. Three books from the Civil War and Reconstruction…
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates published by Penguin Press (2019) 320 pages $30.00 Hardcover $14.99…
A Close Look at Thomas Nast’s Cartoon “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner” 1869 Immigrants Welcome Here?
One of Thomas Nast’s most reproduced cartoons is his 1869 Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner depicting a new America at the dinner table. While an 1860 version of…
March 3, 1867 Tenure of Office Act Passed Setting the Legal Basis for the Johnson Impeachment
On March 3, 1867 Congress enacted the Tenure of Office Act over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act restricted the president’s ability to…
Book Review: The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco published by…
TEACHING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS
The blog Muster has an interesting article by Susannah Ural titled TEACHING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS. It can…
Arguing Against the 15th Amendment and Blacks Voting in Georgia in 1869
In March of 1869 states took up the ratification of the 15th Amendment. The 15th Amendment outlawed discrimiation in voting based on race. One state…
Historian Sean Wilentz: The End of Slavery Was Anything But Inevitable
Historian Sean Wilentz has an interesting article in the New York Review of Books on how surprising the abolition of slavery was to most Americans…
O.O. Howard Explains Why He Supports Closing the Freedmen’s Bureau Dec. 1868
No white man is as associated with the Freedmen’s Bureau as O.O. Howard. The “Christian General” Howard was appointed Commissioner of the Bureau in May…