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History of the Southern United States
- Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction eraIn 1876, the presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden ended in a national crisis that would reshape American democracy for…
- Robert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia on the 19th of January 1807. His father Henry Lee III suffered…
- Plantation complexes in the Southern United StatesThe white-columned plantation house, an icon of American architecture, stood as the popular embodiment of the plantation way of life.
- Compromise of 1877On the morning of the 2nd of March 1877, President pro tempore Thomas W. Ferry announced that Rutherford B. Hayes had been elected president by an electoral…
- Confederate States of AmericaOn the 20th of December 1860, South Carolina became the first state to vote for secession from the United States. This single act triggered a chain reaction…
- Reconstruction eraOn the 9th of April 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
- W. E. B. Du BoisWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on the 23rd of February 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His mother Mary Silvina Burghardt came from a…
- The Birth of a NationD. W. Griffith began filming on the 4th of July 1914 and finished by October 1914. The production used approximately 150,000 feet of footage to create a…
- Lost Cause of the ConfederacyThe term Lost Cause first appeared in the title of an 1866 book by Virginian journalist Edward A. Pollard, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War…
- King CottonIn 1858, Senator James Henry Hammond of South Carolina stood before the United States Senate and declared that cotton was king.