The Reconstruction Era

[25 Civil War Historians File Brief on Disqualification Clause] The 14th Amendment is among the most cited Amendments to the United States Constitution, but the…

The Varner-Hogg plantation near Houston was a sugar plantation that was worked by sixty-six enslaved African Americans in the early 19th Century. It is a…

New Haven is mostly known as the place where  Yale University occupies the center of the city. In the 1800s, it had significantly more importance….

I approached Madison Square Park in New York City from the South East side, where Madison Avenue hits East 23rd Street in Manhattan. There are…

The New York Times has a review of the hot Civil War and Reconstruction book of the Winter. The review is done by  Brenda Wineapple,…

Historian Jill Lepore has an interesting article on the New Yorker website on the failure to convict Confederate President Jefferson Davis after the Civil War….

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon published by Simon & Schuster (2023) Back in the 1960s when I first started…

The 21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized in Norwich, Ct. in September 5, 1862. The regiment was organized after the Union defeat at the…

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf (2023) 480 pages $35.00 In the immediate months after…