On November 25, 1865, Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the white South's massive resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers...
reconstruction
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.
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 racist epithets while sitting here? Did he click his fingers against the grizzly bear claws...
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.