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.
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.
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.
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.
For seemingly forever, the end of Reconstruction has been taught as the "Compromise of 1877, where Democrats agreed to give the presidency to Rutherford Hayes in return for the end.
