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 harsher Reconstruction policy upon the South. But Lincoln had one fatal error in his presidency,...
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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.