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Reconstruction after the US Civil War is a complicated issue that divides American history neatly in two. For a brief moment, radical and moderate Republicans attempted to enforce civil rights, but eventually failed. This is that story.
My US history lectures in chronological order: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXIeBg-rugKMup9o8ohyEEL
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readings assigned for this week of class
Mississippi Black Codes (1865): http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/reconstruction/mississippi-black-code-1865
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (1865, 1866-8, & 1869-70): https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii , https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv , https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxv
*Bibliography*
_A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction,_ edited by Lacy K. Ford (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), ebook. amzn.to/3n5Iuea
Brandon Byrd, “Black Republicans, Black Republic: African-Americans, Haiti, and the Promise of Reconstruction,” _Slavery and Abolition_ 36, iss. 4 (December 2015): 545-567.
Eric Foner, _Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,_ new ed. (1988; New York: Perennial Classics, 2002). amzn.to/34lFOhq
James Marten, _Sing not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America_ (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011). amzn.to/3DQNpqo
David M. Oshinsky, _Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice_ (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997). amzn.to/2u0KwBS
Elaine Frantz Parsons, _Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). amzn.to/2uSkmov
_Reconstruction in a Globalizing World,_ ed. David Prior (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). amzn.to/2ztpwGK
Elliott West, “Reconstructing Race,” _Western Historical Quarterly_ 34, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 6-26. jstor.org/stable/25047206
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Reconstruction after the US Civil War is a complicated issue that divides American history neatly in two. For a brief moment, radical and moderate Republicans attempted to enforce civil rights, but eventually failed. This is that story.
My US history lectures in chronological order: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXIeBg-rugKMup9o8ohyEEL
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See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata
readings assigned for this week of class
Mississippi Black Codes (1865): http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/reconstruction/mississippi-black-code-1865
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (1865, 1866-8, & 1869-70): https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii , https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv , https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxv
*Bibliography*
_A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction,_ edited by Lacy K. Ford (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), ebook. amzn.to/3n5Iuea
Brandon Byrd, “Black Republicans, Black Republic: African-Americans, Haiti, and the Promise of Reconstruction,” _Slavery and Abolition_ 36, iss. 4 (December 2015): 545-567.
Eric Foner, _Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,_ new ed. (1988; New York: Perennial Classics, 2002). amzn.to/34lFOhq
James Marten, _Sing not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America_ (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011). amzn.to/3DQNpqo
David M. Oshinsky, _Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice_ (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997). amzn.to/2u0KwBS
Elaine Frantz Parsons, _Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). amzn.to/2uSkmov
_Reconstruction in a Globalizing World,_ ed. David Prior (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). amzn.to/2ztpwGK
Elliott West, “Reconstructing Race,” _Western Historical Quarterly_ 34, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 6-26. jstor.org/stable/25047206
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