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Tag Archives: Ku Klux Klan
A Close Brush With History—UWF History Trust’s Black Politicians Exhibit
It was recently announced in the last Emerging Civil War newsletter that I’ve taken on a part-time position with the University of West Florida’s Historic Trust in Pensacola, Florida. I had begun volunteering in their Collections Department – and diversifying … Continue reading
Posted in Material Culture, Memory, Politics, Preservation, Reconstruction, Ties to the War
Tagged Archives and Collections, artifacts, Black Politicians, civil war memory, Ku Klux Klan, Material Culture, Museum Exhibit, Pensacola Florida, Pensacola History Museum, Racial hate Groups, Reconstruction, Southern memory, UWF Historic Trust
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Echoes of Reconstruction: Roundup of Recent Books
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Many of us expanded our reading during the lonely days of the Pandemic by taking old books off the shelves to read anew. I just settled in with … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Absalom, Adam Domby, book reviews, civil rights, Congress at War, Constant Lecorge, Edward Ball, Fergus Bordewich, Fred Ogden, Frederick Douglass, Kate Masur, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Life of a Klansman, Michael Gorra, New Orleans, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee and Me, Slavery, The False Cause, The Reconstruction Era Blog, The Sadddest Words, Ty Seidule, Until Justice Be Done, white supremacy, William Faulkner
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Echoes of Reconstruction: Reconstructing American Womanhood During the Civil War and Reconstruction
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog We sometimes mistakenly associate the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras with the “Ideals of Victorian Womanhood,” as though all women sought to nestle inside of a purely domestic sphere of middle … Continue reading
Posted in Reconstruction
Tagged 15th Amendment, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, Ideals of Victorian Womanhood, Jane Grey Swisshelm, Julia Hayden, Kate Mullany, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Michele Ascione, Patrick Young, Susan B. Anthony, The Reconstruction Era Blog, The Reconstructionist, White League
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Echoes of Reconstruction: Black History/Black Resistance
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Reconstruction began while the Civil War was still raging. As Black refugees from slavery reached Union lines, they forced the United States government to reconstruct the relations of slave and master … Continue reading
Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: The Political Violence of 1868
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Over the last month I have been researching political violence during the lead-up to the Election of 1868. This is remembered today as the year that Ulysses S. Grant … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Websites & Blogs, Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged Echoes of the Reconstruction Era, freedmen's bureau, Horatio Seymour, KKK, Knights of the White Camellia, Ku Klux Klan, Patrick Young, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Blog, Ulysses S. Grant, Valvey Veillon, voter suppression
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Monuments, Mass Demonstrations, Race, and Reconstruction
(Editor’s Note: The conversations we’ve had on the blog this week about monuments, the recent mass demonstrations, and race have caused some readers to ask, “How does this help us better understand the Civil War?” In fact, the mission of … Continue reading
