Trump and Andrew Johnson Compared Themselves to Jesus

Donald Trump compares himself to historic martyrs Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela. He "is not the first president to compare himself to Jesus Christ. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson famously did, too...." Johnson, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln after the 16th president was murdered in April, 1865, was an egotistical, enigmatic man unpopular with …

The Jim Crow Era: A Stain On America’s Past

Wondrium: "An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks' famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how "separate but equal" was …

How Reconstruction Era Reshaped America to This Day

Captivating History: After the Civil War, the US nation struggled to define a unified country. Universal male suffrage, regardless of race, became a requirement. But of course in the South, with the widespread enactment of Jim Crow segregation after Reconstruction, black men faced severe restrictions and even threats if they attempted to vote. https://youtu.be/zQYz4BR_vdQ?si=ZVBh61mjsaQlF1z-

The Readjusters: Virginia’s Radical Reformers After Reconstruction

For a brief period after Reconstruction, ex-Confederates allied politically with ex-slaves to "stick it to the rich," in a kind-of populist rebellion, a coalition of poor whites and poor blacks. Google has quite a few links on this movement. It was particularly popular in Virginia, and in the town of Petersburg, which seemed to birth …

Reconstruction: A Concise History

Nearly every American and every student of Reconstruction after the US Civil War finds something to regret about it, writes Allen C. Guelzo, formerly a professor of History at Gettysburg College, PA. In 2018 produced Reconstruction: A Concise History for Oxford University Press. Wikipedia article about Dr. Guelzo.

Why Study Reconstruction?

Facing History, Facing Ourselves: "The Reconstruction Era was a pivotal moment in American history. Civil rights were set in motion as Americans grappled to rebuild after the division and trauma of the Civil War. Facing History’s three-week unit explores essential questions about freedom and citizenship at the heart of this history. Find out more: https://www.facinghistory.org/reconst..." …

What Happened to Confederates After the Civil War?

The Armchair Historian: An animated history of the post-civil war period. 16 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S66Bs8ixvdQ Sources: Blair, William A. With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction After the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Herbert, Paul N. …

Voter Fraud Debate Goes Back to Reconstruction Era

Debates over alleged voter fraud, proposing new laws to regulate and, in some cases, restrict voting, have a long history going back to the Reconstruction era. "During Reconstruction and the so-called “Redeemer” era, reports that Black voters intended to commit fraud served as grist for massive campaigns of voter suppression and intimidation. Ultimately, at the …

Historian David Blight: Reconstruction, Lost Cause Mythology Echo in Current U.S. Debates

David Blight, the legendary Yale historian whose books on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era won a Pulitzer Prize, says the U.S. has been drawn back into that era because the great issues of that time are still with Americans. The country, he says, is trying to figure out: "the nature of federalism; the relationship …

Why Too Many Historians Look Down on Ulysses Grant

A harsh and unfair portrait of General and President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) remains "deeply influential in US education circles... and even today finds echoes in the rhetoric of President Trump," Dr. Robert Farley, PhD, wrote in the non-partisan publication 1945. Why, Dr. Farley asks, would a Republican president, Donald Trump, "devote so much attention …