Channel: The Cynical Historian

Category: Education

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Description: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata readings assigned for this week of class Mississippi Black Codes (1865): americanyawp.com/reader/reconstruction/mississippi-black-code-1865 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (1865, 1866-8, & 1869-70): law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii , law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv , 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory Discord: discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: twitter.com/Cynical_History