Because the National Park Service reflects the historical priorities of Americans over time, it's not surprising that it is so lacking in sites interpreting Reconstruction, since the great growth period for the NPS came when Reconstruction was not seen as so central to U.S. history...
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In the summer of 1864, Abraham Lincoln's reelection was still up in the air, so politically it might have made sense to pocket veto the Wade-Davis bill to impose a.
Am I the only one who thinks this grizzly bear chair presented to Andrew Johnson in 1865 really seals his image as a villain? Who can't see him drunkenly spewing.
Reading part of an econ dissertation linked by Yglesias, I'm reminded Carl Schurz's famous description of Reconstruction. In her project, University of Michigan graduate student Melinda Miller examines the post-civil war economic status of Cherokee freedmen and measures it against the livelihoods of emancipated slaves...