#reconstructionera — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reconstructionera, aggregated by home.social.
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🎧Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher
#TKingfisher @maryrobinettekowal.com @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks @RobinBridgeFour #BookReview #5Hearts #AudioBookReview #NorthCarolina #ReconstructionEra
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An important story told with baffling inconsistency. Greenwood Rising gestures at history but never quite grasps it—turning the rise of Black Wall Street into a collage of anachronisms, stock footage, and missed opportunities. The real Greenwood deserved more care, more clarity, and far more weight.
#GreenwoodRising #BlackWallStreet #TulsaHistory #FilmReview #HistoricalCinema #TulsaRaceMassacre #BlackHistory #CinemaCritique #IndieFilm #ReconstructionEra
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/greenwood-rising-the-rise-of-black-wall-street-2024/ -
#ManishaSinha discusses her book #TheRiseAndFallOfTheSecondAmericanRepublic: #Reconstruction, 1860–1920. The defeat of Reconstruction and its project of inter-racial democracy is presented as a Thermidorean event, laying the way for an imperial state girded in #racialCapitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXxfA5Ig8o&feature=youtu.be
#ReconstructionEra #Emancipation #UShistory #JimCrow #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #books @bookstodon @histodons
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"We talked about the creation of Black institutions, the centrality of #BlackWomen’s labor and leadership, white reactions to Black freedom, and how she and Clarke approached this history with intention and care..."
Jessica Rucker talks w/ #KateMasur about her #FreedomWasInSight!: A Graphic History of #Reconstruction, illustrated by #ElizabethClarke
https://www.publicbooks.org/rethinking-reconstruction-kate-masur-on-freedom-was-in-sight/
#ReconstructionEra #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #graphicNovels #BD #books @bookstodon @histodons @comics
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"Join Michael in his discussion with Professor #JusteneHillEdwards about her powerful new book, #SavingsAndTrust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank. Created after the Civil War, the #FreedmansBank was where tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people placed their savings only to have them stolen by corrupt white bankers."
#Freedmen #Reconstruction #ReconstructionEra #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #RacialWealthGap #books @bookstodon @histodons
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Book talk
"On February 10, 2025, historian #JusteneHillEdwards, was in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian. They discussed Edwards’ book, "#SavingsAndTrust: The Rise and Betrayal of the #FreedmansBank", a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors"
replay: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/the-rise-and-betrayal-of-the-freedmans-bank/
#Reconstruction #ReconstructionEra #WarAgainstReconstruction #Freedmen #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #RacialWealthGap #books @bookstodon @histodons
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Kidada E. Williams' presentation & conversation w/ Alex Lichtenstein about her book #ISawDeathComing: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against #Reconstruction
#KidadaEWilliams #BlackHistory #BlackStudies #ReconstructionEra #USHistory #AmericanHistory #KuKluxKlan #KKK #KlanTerror #KlanHearings #WhiteSupremacism #trauma #TraumaStudies #books @bookstodon
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The Onion: Older Bigot Didn’t Need Social Media Algorithm To Start Down Path Of White Supremacy https://www.theonion.com/older-bigot-didn-t-need-social-media-algorithm-to-start-1850664451 #reconstructionera #racialsegregation #whiteseparatism #whitesupremacy #socialissues #neofascism #alansmith
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#MondayMourning: Louise the Unfortunate
No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the Civil War in search of her fiancé. For reasons unknown, she found herself stranded and husbandless.
Too proud to return home, she became a seamstress, maid, then "woman of the night." After dying in her mid-20s, a mysterious benefactor paid for her funeral and this headstone, more than what most paupers received.
#HisAndHearsePress #Cemetery #Monument #Memorial #Gravestone #Headstone #ReconstructionEra #Natchez #Louise #LouiseTheUnfortunate #Epitaph #WomenOfTheNight
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"A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysses S. #Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the #KKK."
#KlanWar: #UlyssesSGrant and the Battle to Save #Reconstruction by #FergusMBordewich
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647165/klan-war-by-fergus-m-bordewich/
#ReconstructionEra #AmericanCivilWar #KlanTerror #USHistory #AmericanHistory #WhiteSupremacy #KuKluxKlan #books
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#AmReading: The Undertaker’s Assistant by Amanda Skenandore
Ooooh, historical fiction about a woman embalmer?! Yes please!
I rather enjoyed this book, particularly because the author did her homework. She referenced both current and historical embalming texts and visited with her local coroner for insight. She also employed sensitivity readers and referenced primary source documents written by Black people (specifically women, though they’re difficult to find) living in New Orleans or the South during that era.
““The dead can’t hurt you. Only the living can.” Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies—and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer’s shortcomings.
Tall and serious, Effie keeps her distance from the other girls in her boarding house, holding tight to the satisfaction she finds in her work. But despite her reticence, two encounters—with a charismatic state legislator named Samson Greene, and a beautiful young Creole, Adeline—introduce her to new worlds of protests and activism, of soirees and social ambition. Effie decides to seek out the past she has blocked from her memory and try to trace her kin. As her hopes are tested by betrayal, and New Orleans grapples with violence and growing racial turmoil, Effie faces loss and heartache, but also a chance to finally find her place . . .”Learn more at www.bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearsepress
#HisAndHearsePress #JustRead #TBRPile #Books #BookRecs #BookRecommendations #HistoricalFiction #ReconstructionEra #NewOrleans #Embalmer #Undertaker #MortuaryScience #Mortician #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #AmandaSkenandore
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6/23 As we saw in the #CivilWar thread, when Lincoln won the election of 1860, the South seceded and attacked.
The Union won, and federal troops occupied the South during what's called the #ReconstructionEra; the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and "Reconstruction Amendments" to the Constitution (13, 14, and 15) were signed and implemented and progress could've grown deep roots...
but it all got rooted up and killed with the #Compromiseof1877 to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876.