This is the grave of Edmund Ross. Born in 1826 in Ashland, Ohio, Ross grew up in the working class there. At the age of 11, he was apprenticed to a printer and so went into the newspaper business as he learned the trade. His...
reconstruction
Leah Litman notes that Louisiana v. Callais, which intends to rule the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. is really an attempt to repeal the First Reconstruction, as the VRA came out.
One of my biggest pet peeves as a historian is when news organizations take something historians have known basically forever and call it a breaking story. This happens a couple.
This is the grave of James Longstreet. Born in 1821 in Edgefield, South Carolina, a center of the southern planter elite, Longstreet grew up in those traditions. His father, like many southern fathers, believed that the military was the place for his boy. This was...
This is the grave of Joshua Hill. Born in 1812 in Abbeville, South Carolina, Hill went to the common schools, then studied for the law, and then passed the bar..
For our latest podcast, I interviewed Stephen Kantrowitz of the University of Wisconsin about his new book Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States..
This is the grave of Amos Akerman. Born in 1821 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Akerman grew up in one of those gigantic 19th century families (he was the 9th out of 12 kids), but despite the size of the family, they still had plenty of...
Movie poster advertises 'The Birth of a Nation,' directed by D.W. Griffith and illustrating a Ku Klux Klan member on horseback, 1915. Based on the novel 'The Clansman' by Thomas.
Memphis Race Riot, 1866
The Freedmen's Bureau / Drawn by A.R. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473. Hard to find something more self-serving than this given the Freedmen's Bureau massive corruption and underfunding and, often, outright support of white violence to force the freed slaves...
On March 3, 1865, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau to adjudicate relations between white planters and the now-freed slaves in the South, especially around labor issues. A potentially excellent idea,.
This is the grave of James Hinds. Born in 1833 in East Hebron, New York, Hinds was able to go to college at the Albany Normal School, which is the.