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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction
Museum of the Cape Fear to Hold “Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz Bowl”
North Carolina’s Museum of the Cape Fear has been hosting a “Civil War Quiz Bowl” for seventeen years, but last year it was renamed the…
Book Review: Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains By Steven E. Nash
Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains By Steven E. Nash Published by University of North Carolina Press (2016) $39.95…
As Freedmen’s Bureau Was Closing at End of 1868, African Americans Asked for Protection Dec. 15, 1868
The Freedmen’s Bureau was scheduled to shut down all but its educational functions at the end of 1868. With the Bureau about to close, Blacks…
Atlantic Magazine Reporter on His Three Month Journey Through the Post-War South 1865
The February 1866 Atlantic Magazine published this report of a three month trip by journalist Sidney Andrews through the post-war South. Andrews described the extent…
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