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History of the Southern United States
- Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction eraDisfranchisement after the Reconstruction era describes one of the most deliberate political projects in American history: the systematic stripping of voting…
- Robert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was born on the 19th of January 1807 at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, into one of the oldest and most storied…
- Plantation complexes in the Southern United StatesPlantation complexes in the Southern United States were not merely grand houses surrounded by fields. They were sprawling, self-contained worlds, built and…
- Compromise of 1877The Compromise of 1877 resolved one of the most contested presidential elections in American history without a single shot fired.
- Confederate States of AmericaOn the 12th of April 1861, artillery shells arced over Charleston Harbor and slammed into the walls of Fort Sumter. The Confederate States of America had…
- Reconstruction eraOn the 14th of April 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. Lincoln died the following morning, and with him went any settled plan…
- W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois died on the 27th of August 1963 in Accra, Ghana, at the age of 95. The very next day, hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in…
- The Birth of a NationThe Birth of a Nation arrived in American theaters in 1915 and immediately changed what cinema could do. D. W. Griffith directed this silent epic, and within…
- Lost Cause of the ConfederacyThe Lost Cause of the Confederacy was not born on a battlefield. It was born in a publisher's office in New York City, where a nervous editor told a…
- King CottonKing Cotton was not just a phrase. It was a strategy, a prophecy, and, in the end, a trap that Southern secessionists built for themselves in the years…