Andy Johnson Said that Equality for Blacks Is Discrimination Against Whites: Veto of Civil Rights Act of 1866
We are discussing the veto of the first Civil Rights Act (1866) by Andrew Johnson. Johnson found something to complain about for each of the…
President Johnson Vetoed the Civil Rights Act Because Blacks Had Not Earned Citizenship
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 became law after Congress overrode a veto by President Andrew Johnson. In this article, I want to look at…
People Still Care About History Say the 400,000 Americans Who Visited Lynching Memorial Last Year
Bryan Stevenson, author, lawyer, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, was interviewed on WNYC today. The second segment covers the new memorial…
Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox
Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox published by Florida University Press (2003). Hardcover $55.00,…
House Museums Telling the Stories of the Slaves as Well as the Masters
Today’s New York Times has an interesting article on how house museums are finally telling the stories of the slaves who lived there. If you…
Federal Courts Were Given the Power to Enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1866 Because the State Courts Wouldn’t
This is the fourth article in our Deep Dive into the Civil Rights Act of 1866. We have already seen that the 1866 Act made…
Civil Rights Act of 1866: Criminal Penalties for Violating the Rights of Blacks
This is the third installment of our Deep Dive into the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Section 1 of the Act was the enduring Citizenship…
1866 Civil Rights Act Deep Dive: The Citizenship Clause Established that Those Born in U.S. Are Citizens
This week I am taking a close look at the 1866 Civil Rights Act. This was our first Federal civil rights act barring many forms…
Reconstruction of Native Americans After the Civil War
Alexandra Stern is a doctoral candidate in American History at Stanford University doing research on Native Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is…
The Grand Review of the Union Army at the End of the Civil War
A friendly librarian, Edana from Patchogue on Long Island, sent me along this page from the Library of Congress on the Grand Review in Washington…