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A Black Man Tells Congress What African Americans Faced in the South During Reconstruction: Henry Adams

During Reconstruction, African Americans formed committees to record the violation of human rights by various white supremacist organizations like the Knights of the White Camelia (KWC)...


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A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War by W. Fitzhugh Brundage published by

W. W. Norton & Company (2026)

When people ask me what books I recommend on the Civil War and Reconstruction, apart from some classic works, I always ask if they have r...


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Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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How the Klan Was Taught to Kids Before the 1980s

In the 1920s, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grandson, who had the same name, attracted quite a bit of attention when he announced that he was setting up a Klan Kollege in Georgia. The grandson had headed th...


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Civil War Memorial in Greene, New York

Greene, New York is a small town today and it was even smaller during the Civil War. Lying along the Chenango River, up until 1812 it had been occupied by the Oneida people. In 1860, Greene village only had a population of 846. The larger Town of Green had a population of 3,809. Please note that while the village and the town are named Greene, they are not part of Greene Coun...


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