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New York’s Weekly Caucasian and the Development of Political White Supremacy
As someone who spends a lot of time reading 19th Century American newspapers, I sometimes come up with a newspaper with the word “Caucasian” in…
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Newly Digitalized Civil War and Reconstruction Era Newspapers from Georgia Available Free OnLine
On December 11, 2019 the Digital Library of Georgia at the University of Georgia announced that it had just completed the digitalization of 100,000 pages…
The First Time the Ku Klux Klan Was Covered in a National Newspaper Was for a Murder Jan. 18, 1868
While the Ku Klux Klan would later claim that it had begun life on Christmas Eve, 1865, historians now believe it started six months later….
In Defense of a White Man’s Government in Alabama January 1868
The Montgomery Advertiser January 14, 1868 gives an insight into what White Southern conservatives were fighting for during Reconstruction. It was “A White Man’s Government.” I…
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