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2019
14 Oct 2019
“We Must Escape Equality With the Negroes” The Fondest Hope for White Virginians in the New Year of 1869original ↗
13 Oct 2019
Greg Downs Interviewed on His Book “After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War” a Great Book on the U.S. Army in the South After the Waroriginal ↗
13 Oct 2019
New Podcast from NY Times 1619 Project on African American Land Ownership During Reconstruction & Jim Croworiginal ↗
11 Oct 2019
Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Beanoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2019
How Successful Were Southern States at Encouraging Chinese Immigrants to Move to the Region?original ↗
10 Oct 2019
“The White Race of the South Will Constitute One Army” Attacking Reconstruction November 1868original ↗
8 Oct 2019
Historian Greg Downs Says that Impeachment by House Can Be Effective Even if President Is Not Removedoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2019
Listen to Keith Harris, The Rogue Historian, Interview Pat Young on Blogging the Civil War and Reconstructionoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019
Book Review: The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineappleoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2019
Freedom Under the Confiscation Act 1862: What the “Emancipation Paper” Said and How It Threatened Slaveryoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2019
Podcast: Francis Lieber, German Immigrant, Develops Laws of War During Civil War & Reconstructionoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2019
25 Sept 2019
When Ulysses S. Grant Barred Governmental Discrimination Against Blacks in the Nation’s Capital March 1869original ↗
24 Sept 2019
23 Sept 2019
Georgia Supreme Court: Marriage Between People of Different Races “Is Always Productive of Deplorable Results” 1869original ↗
22 Sept 2019
21 Sept 2019
Virginia Conservatives Vow to Work to Place Nation Back “Under the Control of the White Race” (1867)original ↗
21 Sept 2019
20 Sept 2019
Slavery as Cause of the Civil War: “Revisionists,” “NeoRevisionists,” and “Fundamentalists”original ↗
19 Sept 2019
11 Sept 2019
NY Times Reviews Book That Asks Whether Germans Have a Truer Memory of Their Atrocities Than We Do of Oursoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2019
General Frank Blair Warns That “Negro Suffrage” Leads to “Adulteration of Our Anglo-Saxon Race”original ↗
8 Sept 2019
Part 3: Why Academic Historians Should Thank Their Colleagues on Social Media and Why They Are Important for Democracyoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2019
Part 2: Academic Historians Zero in on What They Don’t Like About Using Social Media: Hint-He Lives in Bostonoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2019
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslieoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2019
The Social Media Problem for Civil War Historians: They Don’t Like It & They Wish It Would Go Awayoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2019
4 Sept 2019
3 Sept 2019
3 Sept 2019
1 Sept 2019
Seeing Reconstruction in the Fall of 1868 Through the Eyes of The “Weekly Caucasian” Newspaper from Missourioriginal ↗
30 Aug 2019
John B. Gordon to Black Voters “We opposed your freedom…because we had bought you” Sept. 1868original ↗
29 Aug 2019
28 Aug 2019
Nick Sacco Explains How National Park Service Interprets Grant’s Presidency at His Home in St. Louisoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2019
Kevin Levin Interviewed About “Searching for Black Confederates,” One of the Most Controversial Civil War Books of 2019original ↗
27 Aug 2019
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era by Douglas R. Egertonoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2019
25 Aug 2019
24 Aug 2019
When Thad Stevens Died the Old Abolitionist Was With Black Preachers and Catholic Nuns August 1868original ↗
23 Aug 2019
When the Great Historian of Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois Got a White Supremacist Laughed Off the Stageoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2019
Arguing Against Civil Rights in 1875 “You have not the power to make him white, and he never will be satisfied”original ↗
21 Aug 2019
20 Aug 2019
19 Aug 2019
Anna Dickinson: Don’t Hide Principles of Equality Behind Grant’s Cigar Smoke on Votes for Blacks June 1868original ↗
18 Aug 2019
17 Aug 2019
Comedian Adam Conover Interviews Christy Coleman of the American Civil War Museum on Reconstructionoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2019
16 Aug 2019
15 Aug 2019
Civil Rights Group Uses 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act to Go After Modern White Nationalist Terroristsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019
“Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” Documentary to Run this Week on Many PBS Stationsoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2019
Washington Post Publishes Comments of Plantation Tourists Complaining that They Learned About Slavery!original ↗
9 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019