I'm pleased to announce that my article on how the Reconstruction era was remembered and misremembered in the Civil Rights era has just been published in @modamhist.bsky.social. Very grateful to the editors and anonymous readers for their generous help./1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/dark-and-sad-days-of-reconstruction-the-politics-of-memory-in-the-civil-rights-era/A43A38E7EA2A99FA06157475954ECAF5
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/dark-and-sad-days-of-reconstruction-the-politics-of-memory-in-the-civil-rights-era/A43A38E7EA2A99FA06157475954ECAF5
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KKK
Because what we learned in middle school was the Civil War, then the Radical Republicans leading to the Johnson Impeachment (why?), then Grant (whitewashed), then a bunch of guys with big beards/sideburns. NOTHING about what went on in South.
My students can expect an update to the memory section of our Civil War and Reconstruction syllabus.
Anything to do with memory is fascinating; conversion of an event to a myth.